It's a programming language which is as close to machine code as you can get. It has mnemonic commands that tell the computer what to do. It is different from other higher level languages in that when you see something like
It sends many instructions to the computer. In assembly, you see something like:
Which will translate directly into one instruction to the machine.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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