Assembly is a way of writing machine code, but with words and hexideci numbers instead of 1s and 0s and comments/white space, it’s barely a language, from the 40s.
COBOL is a compiled language from the 60s. The compiler turns the somewhat human-readable code into assembly the computer can read.
Maybe barely, but I imagine most assembly variants have conveniences like labels for jumps, labels for referencing data included in the executable, and at least some also have things like simple macros or calculating mathematical expressions at compiletime.
Also assembly is even older than COBOL.
Assembly isnt a single language though. I could write assembly for riscv or a recent arm ISA and that would be quite new.
I wondered if maybe “assembly” gets used to mean x86 but apparently thats a bunch newer than COBOL so I dont think Im being pedantic :)
I’m unsure if this is also an April fools joke
In broad terms it’s true, though there are some variants of assembly that are newer than COBOL.
Assembly language is one step above machine code, and was the first large step toward a world where people write server-side code in Javascript.
Assembly is a way of writing machine code, but with words and hexideci numbers instead of 1s and 0s and comments/white space, it’s barely a language, from the 40s.
COBOL is a compiled language from the 60s. The compiler turns the somewhat human-readable code into assembly the computer can read.
Maybe barely, but I imagine most assembly variants have conveniences like labels for jumps, labels for referencing data included in the executable, and at least some also have things like simple macros or calculating mathematical expressions at compiletime.