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Jun 20th, 2006, 11:41 PM
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Is Assembly a programming language?
I figured I'd register here and ask some seemingly knowledgeable people. My friend insists it isn't, but by the definition of "programming language" (and common sense) I think it definitely is.
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Jun 20th, 2006, 11:57 PM
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Its the language in which the programmer communicates with the processor.
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Jun 21st, 2006, 12:15 AM
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assembly is a low level "language", C++ and those like it are high level languages.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&h...ition&ct=title low level language is: A machine language or an assembly language. Low-level languages are closer to the hardware than are high-level programming languages, which are closer to human languages. often for these low level langauges, some instructions can be converted 1 to 1 over to machine language from assembly, this is not always true but in a lot of cases. whereas in a high level language one statement can translate into pages and pages of machine language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language in any case, its still a language, still and abstraction that expresses some meaning.
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Jun 21st, 2006, 2:02 AM
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Thanks, guys.
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Jun 21st, 2006, 7:58 AM
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>My friend insists it isn't
I'd like to see what your friend's arguments are to justify that opinion.
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Jun 21st, 2006, 8:07 AM
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>I'd like to see what your friend's arguments are to justify that opinion.
They probably looked up jmp and esi in every dictionary they could find, but came up with nothing. 
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Assembly is a nice language to program in. Too bad there are no libraries for it.
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Jun 21st, 2006, 8:42 AM
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I believe there are libraries for it.
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