This is a specialized program that transforms "source" code written in a programming language into a low-level language, like assembly or the binary "machine code" that the CPU can directly process.

Randall Hyde has taught assembly language programming at the university level for more than a decade and his Web site, Webster: The Place on the Net to Learn Assembly Language Programming, is one of ...

Of course, it’s a Hackaday crowd, but I still didn’t expect the outpouring of love for the most primitive of languages. Assembly language isn’t really one language, though.

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

The basic idea was to teach students assembly language programming by leveraging their knowledge of high level languages like C/C++ and Pascal /Delphi. At the same time, HLA was designed to allow ...