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Assembly Language is a method of abstracting machine code instructions for a computer into commands recognizable by a human. Instead of dealing directly with bit sequences, programmers write programs in assembly by generating blocks of code using a small set of keywords (which are mapped to machine instructions by an assembler). | '''Assembly Language''' is a method of abstracting [[machine code]] instructions for a [[computer]] into commands recognizable by a human. Instead of dealing directly with bit sequences, programmers write programs in assembly by generating blocks of code using a small set of keywords (which are mapped to machine instructions by an [[assembler]]). | ||
An example [[Hello World]] program written in pseudo-assembly is listed below. Original source: [http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/asm.html Assembly Language for the IBM-PC]. | An example [[Hello World]] program written in pseudo-assembly for a [[MSDOS]]-based system is listed below. Original source: [http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/asm.html Assembly Language for the IBM-PC]. | ||
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Assembly programs are much easier to understand than their corresponding machine code instruction streams, but they are much more difficult to comprehend than, | Assembly programs are much easier to understand than their corresponding machine code instruction streams, which are just numbers, but they are much more difficult to comprehend than, higher-level [[programming languages]] like, for example, [[PHP]]. | ||
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Revision as of 20:08, 11 March 2007
Assembly Language is a method of abstracting machine code instructions for a computer into commands recognizable by a human. Instead of dealing directly with bit sequences, programmers write programs in assembly by generating blocks of code using a small set of keywords (which are mapped to machine instructions by an assembler).
An example Hello World program written in pseudo-assembly for a MSDOS-based system is listed below. Original source: Assembly Language for the IBM-PC.
.data hello_message db 'Hello, World!',0dh,0ah,'$'
.code main proc
mov ax,@data mov ds,ax
mov ah,9 mov dx,offset hello_message int 21h
mov ax,4C00h int 21h
main endp end main
Assembly programs are much easier to understand than their corresponding machine code instruction streams, which are just numbers, but they are much more difficult to comprehend than, higher-level programming languages like, for example, PHP.