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Key concepts
Language design
Use of assembly language
Terminology
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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
Topics to explore
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Overview
- Low-level programming language
- Computer architecture
- Machine code
- Instructions Instruction set architecture
- Statement Statement (computer science)
- Comments Comment (computer programming)
- Directives Directive (programming)
- Labels Label (computer science)
- Memory locations Memory location
- Registers Processor register
- Macros Macro instruction
- Kathleen Kathleen Booth
- Andrew Donald Booth
- Utility program Utility software
- Wilkes Maurice Wilkes
- Wheeler David Wheeler (computer scientist)
- Gill Stanley Gill
- The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
- Source code
- X86
- ARM ARM architecture family
- Operating system
- Syntax Syntax (programming languages)
- Processor Processor (computing)
- System call
- High-level languages High-level programming language
- Portable Porting
- Interpreting Interpreter (computing)
- Compiling Compiler
- Systems programming
Assembly language syntax
- Mnemonic
- Architectural registers Register (computing)
- Flags Bit field
- Expressions Expression (computer science)
- Addressing modes Addressing mode
- Offsets Offset (computer science)
- Debugging
- White space Whitespace character
Terminology
- Macroinstruction Macro (computer science)
- Cross compiler
- Embedded system
- Microcontroller
- Object code
- Read-only memory
- EPROM
- Programmer Programmer (hardware)
- Intel hex
- Motorola S-record
- IF/THEN/ELSE Conditional (computer programming)
- Microassembler
- Microprogram Microcode
- SDS 9 Series
- SDS Sigma series
- Sperry Univac
- UNIVAC 1100/2200 series
- Inline assembler
Key concepts
- Translating Translator (computing)
- Bits Bit
- Symbolic names Identifier
- Inline Inline expansion
- Subroutines Subroutine
- Optimizations Compiler optimization
- Jump-sizing
- RISC architectures
- Instruction scheduling
- CPU pipeline
- Fortran
- Algol
- COBOL
- Lisp Lisp (programming language)
- Code generators Code generation (compiler)
- Speedcode
- CPU Central processing unit
- Intel syntax
- AT&T syntax
- GNU Assembler
- FASM
- TASM Turbo Assembler
- X86 assembly X86 assembly language
- Assembler Assembly language assembler
- Machine language
- IA-32
- Immediate 8-bit value Constant (computer programming)
- Binary code
- Hexadecimal
- Decimal
Language design
- Autocoders Autocoder
- HLASM
- Pre-processor
- C programming language C (programming language)
- PL/I
- Parameters Parameter (computer programming)
- Unrolled Loop unrolling
- Virtual machine
- SNOBOL4
- Macro assembler
- IBM
- VM/CMS VM (operating system)
- CICS
- ACP IBM Airline Control Program
- TPF Transaction Processing Facility
- Computer reservation systems Computer reservation system
- OS/360 OS/360 and successors
- System generation
- Job stream
- Job control language
- Utility Support programs for OS/360 and successors
- Turing-complete Turing completeness
- C++
- Structured programming
- Harlan Mills
- Spaghetti code
- Whitesmiths Ltd. Whitesmiths
- Unix
- Idris Idris (operating system)
Use of assembly language
- Stored-program computer
- ARC2 APEXC
- Birkbeck, University of London
- John von Neumann
- Herman Goldstine
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator EDSAC
- Boot Booting
- IEEE Computer Society
- Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program
- IBM 650
- First-generation First-generation language
- Programming productivity
- Device drivers Device driver
- Real-time Real-time computing
- Burroughs MCP
- Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language
- IBM mainframe
- FORTRAN
- Apple II
- Atari 8-bit computers
- ZX Spectrum
- Commodore 64
- BASIC
- Atari 2600
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- IBM PC compatibles IBM PC compatible
- MS-DOS
- Turbo Pascal
- Lotus 1-2-3
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Assembly language
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Important terminology
assembly language assembler code instructions assemblers macro used machine programming languages instruction program use data programs also high-level example macros
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly language | Filename extensions | .asm, .s, .S, .inc, .wla, .SRC as well as several others depending on the assembler | 1.00 | infobox |
| Assembly language | First appeared | 1947; 79 years ago (1947) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Assembly language | Paradigm | Imperative, unstructured, often metaprogramming (through macros), certain assemblers are structured or object-oriented | 1.00 | infobox |
| Assembly language | Typing discipline | None | 1.00 | infobox |
| x86 or ARM.Sometimes there is more than one assembler for the same architecture | instance of | each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture | 0.80 | text |
| and sometimes an assembler is specific to an operating system or to particular operating systems | instance of | each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture | 0.80 | text |
| Fortran | instance of | as the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Algol | instance of | as the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| COBOL | instance of | as the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| Lisp | instance of | as the first step above machine language and before high-level programming languages | 0.80 | text |
| classes | instance of | Object-oriented programming features | 0.80 | text |
| objects | instance of | Object-oriented programming features | 0.80 | text |
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