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assembly language

any low-level programming language in which there is a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions
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assembly language
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assembly language

Summary

assembly language is a programming language[1]. It ranks in the top 0.4% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,275 views/month, #3 of 742).[2]

Key Facts

  • assembly language's instance of is recorded as programming language[3].
  • assembly language is a type of non-structured programming language[4].
  • assembly language is a type of low-level programming language[5].
  • assembly language's Commons category is recorded as Assembly languages[6].
  • January 1, 1949 marks the founding of assembly language[7].
  • assembly language's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Assembly languages[8].
  • assembly language's file extension is recorded as asm[9].
  • assembly language's file extension is recorded as s[10].
  • assembly language's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/assembly[11].
  • assembly language's different from is recorded as assembler[12].
  • assembly language's programming paradigm is recorded as non-structured programming[13].
  • assembly language's derivative work is recorded as GNU assembler[14].
  • assembly language's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15].
  • assembly language's P6009 is recorded as 3903[16].

Why It Matters

assembly language ranks in the top 0.4% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,275 views/month, #3 of 742).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

It has been cited as an influence by Speedcoding[19], a programming language[20], founded in 1953[21].

FAQs

Who did assembly language influence?

assembly language has been cited as an influence by Speedcoding[19].

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  8. [10] ↑ . cs.lmu.edu. cs.lmu.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  1. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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