Assembly
From Encyclopædia
Assembly is the name given to any low-level COMPUTER
language that is tailored to the
architecture of a specific
microprocessor. Although all assembly
languages closely resemble one another, each
microprocessor has a different configuration of
memory addresses--analogous to mail slots--where information can be stored in binary form, a series of ones and zeros, that is difficult to understand. Assembly
languages are a more-readable shorthand form of binary code. Assembly programs are, however, still more difficult to write and read than programs in high-level computer
languages such as BASIC or Pascal, although assembly
languages run much faster in a computer. The first assembly
languages were developed in the early 1950s.
