It isn’t fair that the assembly example given doesn’t contain a single remark. ... Short version: an assembly language is intended to have a near 1:1 relationship with machine code.

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this two-part mini-series, odd ideas are popping in and out of my head all the time, and every now and then I share my ponderings with the readers of Programmable Logic ...

Forth interactive, incremental assemblers allow assembler production of machine language modules. And code fragments too. I saw ‘the light’ when I studied and used figForth 8080 assembler.

Assembly was also in the news recently when the "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules" -- written in assembly -- was posted to GitHub. While ...

This simple example shows a limited subset of the entire HLA Standard Library, which incorporates everything from file I/O to popping the stack, switching register values and other traditional ...