Machine- and assembly-language programming

  • Authors:
  • Mark Halpern

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

As it appeared in the first and second editions of this Encyclopedia, this article dealt with machine- and assembly-language programming as if they were dead or dying, and the article aspired to do little more than deliver a eulogy before turning away for the last time from something on the verge of extinction. In the third edition, a reprieve was announced--the arrival of the personal computer, typically with no more than 640K of application-program memory, restored the importance of tight code, and with it the rationale for machine language (ML) and assembly language (AL).