See the
terminology section, below, regarding inconsistent use of the terms assembly and assembler.An assembly language is a
low-level language for programming computers. It implements a symbolic representation of the numeric
machine codes and other constants needed to program a particular
CPU architecture. This representation is usually defined by the hardware manufacturer, and is based on abbreviations (called mnemonics) that help the programmer remember individual instructions,
registers, etc. An assembly language is thus specific to a certain physical or virtual computer architecture (as opposed to most
high-level languages, which are
portable).
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