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Assembly language

In computing, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions. Assembly language…

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Filename extensions
.asm, .s, .S, .inc, .wla, .SRC as well as several others depending on the assembler
First appeared
1947; 79 years ago (1947)
Paradigm
Imperative, unstructured, often metaprogramming (through macros), certain assemblers are structured or object-oriented
Typing discipline
None

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related to Further reading · 77
Assembly language → Addison Wesley, An, Archived, ARM Edition, ASM, ASM Community, ASM Community Book, Assembler Language Programming, Assemblers, Assembly Language Programming, Assembly Language Step-by-Step, Bartlett, Bartlett Publishing, Book, Brady Books, Britton, Calingaert, Chapel Hill, Charles, Compilers
related to Use of assembly language · 24
Assembly language → Advanced Study, Andrew Booth, ARC2, Birkbeck, Calculator, David Wheeler, EDSAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic, Herman Goldstine, IBM, IEEE Computer Society, In, Institute, It, John, Kathleen Booth, London, Neumann, Reports, SOAP
related to Support for structured programming · 19
Assembly language → A-Natural, Another, Concept-14, GOTO, Harlan Mills, IBM's Federal Systems Division, IBM's High Level Assembler, IF/ELSE/ENDIF, March, Marvin Kessler, OS/360, Packages, Parentheses, The, This, Toolkit, Unix-like Idris, Whitesmiths Ltd, Z80
related to Terminology · 17
Assembly language → Cross-assembling, DO CASE, EPROM, IF/THEN/ELSE, In, Intel, Meta-Assembler, Meta-Symbol, Motorola S-record, Open, ROM, SDS, SDS Sigma, Series, Sperry Univac, This, UNIVAC
has application · 15
Assembly language → Assemblers, Assembly, BIOS, CP/M, IBM-compatible PC, Interactive Disassembler, Many, Pascal, Programs, RAM, ROM, Some, The, This, Tools
see also · 10
Assembly language → Base-16, Compiler, Computer, Early, Four-bit, Instructional, Model, Processing Language, Programming, Software
related to Assembly language · 6
Assembly language → AL, Assembly, For, IA-32, Some, The
related to Assembly language syntax · 6
Assembly language → Assembly, Depending, Many, Most, Some, Thus
related to "Hello, world!" on 32-bit x86 Linux · 3
Assembly language → Hello, In, Linux
related to "Hello, world!" on bare 32-bit x86 hardware · 3
Assembly language → AL, Call, Hello

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assembly language assembler code instructions assemblers macro used machine programming languages instruction program use data programs also high-level example macros

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Assembly languageFilename extensions.asm, .s, .S, .inc, .wla, .SRC as well as several others depending on the assembler1.00infobox
Assembly languageFirst appeared1947; 79 years ago (1947)1.00infobox
Assembly languageParadigmImperative, unstructured, often metaprogramming (through macros), certain assemblers are structured or object-oriented1.00infobox
Assembly languageTyping disciplineNone1.00infobox
x86 or ARM.Sometimes there is more than one assembler for the same architectureinstance ofeach assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture0.80text
and sometimes an assembler is specific to an operating system or to particular operating systemsinstance ofeach assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture0.80text
Fortraninstance ofas the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages0.80text
Algolinstance ofas the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages0.80text
COBOLinstance ofas the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages0.80text
Lispinstance ofas the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages0.80text
classesinstance ofObject-oriented programming features0.80text
objectsinstance ofObject-oriented programming features0.80text

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