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What are the instructions to the computer on how to process data?
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∙ 10y ago
Basically a computer uses what is called machine language. This is represented by 0's and 1's and is very difficult to read/write. So we came up with assembler which is quite readable and pretty easy to program with. Different computer architectures however use different assembler instructions and you generally need some in depth understanding of how the chip in question works. Some are very easy to understand like Atmel AVR. If you are geared more towards a PC the target is generally an x86 chip and they are much messier. As programs grew and as programmers are lazy we found that it takes a loong time to code in Assembler so another layer of abstraction was introduced allowing us to write less code, this has resulted in different programming paradigms where you essentially have access to different programming languages that are better suited towards solving different problems and developing different kinds of programs. We generally refer to languages that are above Assembler in abstraction as "High-level" languages.
If you write a program in a high level language it will be translated ("compiled", "assembled") to Assembler and in the chip it will be machine code. See Related Link below as well.
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