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.
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.