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Low-level programming language

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In computer science, the low-level programming language usually refers to machine language or similar languages.

"Low" does not imply the language ranks lower in any sense than high-level language.

It is usually close to the native artitecture of target machines, and able to code direct operations of microprocessors.

Assember language is sometimes called low-level language when compared with BASIC or C programming language. C programming language is occasionally called low-level language compared with Java programming language given that the ability of C to code machine dependent operations.

See also: programming language, high-level programming language

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