Assembly language, Type of low-level computer programming language consisting mostly of

 

symbolic equivalents of a particular computer’s machine language. Computers produced by different

 

manufacturers have different machine languages and require different assemblers and assembly

 

languages. Some assembly languages can be used to convert the code that programmers write

 

(source code) into machine language (readable by the computer), and have functions to facilitate

 

programming (e.g., by combining a sequence of several instructions into one entity). Programming in

 

assembly languages requires extensive knowledge of computer architecture..