Programming in assembly language -- getting down to the direct manipulation of bytes and even bits -- is gaining in popularity, according the latest ranking by TIOBE, apparently spurred by the ...

"It's the assembly language programming game you never asked for!" This logline is crafted to appeal and cause intrigue for a particular type of gamer. For those who know about computer programming ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Every software program is written in a programming language, and there are several languages for every major CPU series; typically an assembly language and a number of high-level languages. Assembly ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

A recent edition of [Babbage’s] The Chip Letter discusses the obscurity of assembly language. He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more often read than written, yet nearly ...

Some time ago, a desire to familiarize myself with Microchip PIC24/dsPIC assembler language programming coincided with digging out the listing for a FORTH programming language interpreter/compiler I ...

Let’s start right off with a controversial claim: Forth is the hacker’s programming language. Coding in Forth is a little bit like writing assembly language, interactively, for a strange CPU ...