what is assembly language used for ?

Answer 1

Its like an ordinary programming language like your Basic, C++ but its purely memonic in nature (It does not use the English words for its construct) and its nearer to machine language.


Kiss

Answer 2

Good Luck!

That is a highly technical question that requires lots of education and/or experience to really understand. Maybe your local public library has some good books which will help you learn the basics. My favorites are The Complete Idiot's Guides and The Dummies Guides although I am not sure which one of those series covers assembly language. I took a college course in IBM Assembler many years ago (and disliked it) so I have never gone looking for any more information.

Answer 3

Assembly language is a second generation language that runs very close to the core of the CPU. The instructions are very simplistic, but the programming is down to the nub. Most times, this kind of programming is used to write hardware drivers and operating system extensions because it runs very quickly. Pascal and C are two examples of third gen languages. When you compile the programs written in them, they produce the same assembly language instructions that you would write if you wanted to write close to the hardware.

Answer 4

Its used to program the microprocessors found in things like a microwave or radio. The reason you use it is because embeded systems usually have a very limited amount of space to store a program, so its better to use assembly even though some microprocessors allow for languages like C/C++. Also, using C++ to program a microwave is like putting out a match with a fire hose.

-BoneSaw

Answer 5

It's a more human readable form of machine language. Machine language is binary, every program when run is in this form. ASM is useful for high performance applications, or to do things that a given language can't do (like perform math operations on 256 bit integer types).