A: Absolutely. Assembly language came close to dying in the early to middle 1990s. This was largely due to the fact that there was very little information about writing Windows applications in ...

Like assembly language, C/C++ can manipulate the bits at the machine level, but it is also portable to different computer platforms. There are C/C++ compilers for almost all computers. See compiler.

Max, I enjoyed reading your article. Interestingly, no one commented on microcode, which is “bare metal” programming. I learned about this in the mid-80's while microcode programming an Adage graphics ...

Assembly language is a text representation of the machine code your CPU executes I’m no stranger to assembly languages, but I’m not sure I know a modern and defensible answer to this question.