Assembly language - Assembly language

Assembly language is an assembly language created in 1960.

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An assembly (or assembler) language, often abbreviated asm, is any low-level programming language in which there is a very strong correspondence between the program's statements and the architecture's machine code instructions.Each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture and operating system. In contrast, most high-level programming languages are generally portable across multiple architectures but require interpreting or compiling. Assembly language may also be called symbolic machine code.Assembly language usually has one statement per machine instruction, but assembler directives, macros and symbolic labels of program and memory locations are often also supported. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 109,158 Assembly language repos on GitHub
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 33k users using Assembly language in 48k repos on GitHub
There are 14,763 members in the Assembly language subreddit
There are 223 Project Euler users using Assembly language
In the 2021 StackOverflow developer survey Assembly language programmers reported a median salary of $55,211. 6% of respondents reported using Assembly language. 4,632 programmers reported using Assembly language, and 3,578 said they wanted to use it
Assembly language ranks #8 in the TIOBE Index
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See also: (19 related languages) X86, Fortran, Algol, Lisp, GNU Assembler, x86 Assembly, Punched tape, IA-32, AUTOCODER, PL/I, COBOL, C, Unix, Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Pascal, High Level Assembly, WebAssembly
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Example from Compiler Explorer:

infiniteLoop:
    jmp main
main:
    jmp infiniteLoop

Example from Wikipedia:

include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc	; use the Masm32 library

.code
demomain:
  REPEAT 20
	switch rv(nrandom, 9)	; generate a number between 0 and 8
	mov ecx, 7
	case 0
		print "case 0"
	case ecx				; in contrast to most other programming languages,
		print "case 7"		; the Masm32 switch allows "variable cases"
	case 1 .. 3
		.if eax==1
			print "case 1"
		.elseif eax==2
			print "case 2"
		.else
			print "cases 1 to 3: other"
		.endif
	case 4, 6, 8
		print "cases 4, 6 or 8"
	default
		mov ebx, 19		     ; print 20 stars
		.Repeat
			print "*"
			dec ebx
		.Until Sign?		 ; loop until the sign flag is set
	endsw
	print chr$(13, 10)
  ENDM
  exit
end demomain