A program called an assembler is then used to convert from the assembly language ... into machine code. Higher level languages like C or C++ are converted into machine code using a compiler.

I’ve talked about it before, but if you don’t want to read the whole post about it, it uses some simple tricks to convert standard-looking assembly language formats into C code that is then ...

and many applications were written in assembly language to maximize the machine's performance. Today, C/C++ is widely used ... which takes 16 lines of code for the HP and 82 lines for the x86.