Computer Software

Assembly languages: Second Generation

• One step above of machine language: the second generation of programming languages.
• More readable.
• Computer operations are represented by mnemonic codes rather than binary numbers.
• Variables can be given names rather than binary memory addresses.
• Programmers could substitute languagelike acronyms and words such as add, sub, and load in programming statements.
• A language translator called a compiler converted the Englishlike statements into machine language.
• Disadvantage: CPU- dependent.