A language that operates close to a machine's own instruction set, with little or no abstraction away from the hardware. Belongs here: Assembly Language, the atlas's sole low-level-language entity. Does not belong here: a compiled language such as C that still abstracts away from a specific instruction set, filed under Procedural Language.
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The first assembly code in which a language is used to represent machine code instructions is found in Andrew Donald Booth and Kathleen H.V. Britten's 1947 work, Coding for A.R.C.
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