He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more ... program outputs the desired machine language into a desired file format. It is very easy to set up, and in the middle ...

It is this “raw” number format that is machine code ... So there is a slightly higher level language called assembly language which is a text representation of the machine code.

A programming language that is one step away from machine language. Each assembly language statement is translated into a machine instruction by the assembler. Programmers must be well versed in ...