Assembly If you start with a C or C++ program, one thing you can do is ask the compiler to output assembly language for you.

Translators like compilers, interpreters and assemblers are needed to translate programs written in high-level languages into the machine code that a computer understands.

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 ...