Question #4

QUESTION:

Justify what situations or applications programmers will rather use Assembly Languages than Higher Level Progamming Languages and vice versa.

ANSWER:

Assembly language is a low-level language for programming computers. It implements a symbolic representation of the numeric machine codes and other constants needed to program a particular CPU architecture. This representation is usually defined by the hardware manufacturer, and is based on abbreviations (called mnemonics) that help the programmer remember individual instructions,registers, etc. An assembly language is thus specific to a certain physical or virtual computer architecture (as opposed to most high-level language, which are usually portable).While High-Level Language is a type of advanced computer programming language that isn't limited by the type of computer or for one specific job and is more easily understood. Today, there are dozens of high-level languages; some commonly used high-level languages are BASIC, C, FORTRAN and Pascal.In comparison to low-level programming languages, it may use natural language elements, be easier to use, or more portable across platforms.