what is machine language

what is machine language

♦ Machine language is the only language that is directly understood by the computer. It is written in binary form that is 0 and1.

It is most efficient for the computer as the instructions are directly executed.

♦ It is not an easy language to learn because of its complexity as it consists of 1's and 0's. Program instruction may look like this: 1011000111101

♦ Machine language is hardware dependent. A program written for one computer might not run on other computers with different hardware configuration. It is also difficult to debug the program written in this language.

♦ The only advantage is that program of machine language run very fast because no translation program is required for the CPU.

♦ It is considered to the first generation language. The following program is an example of a machine language program for adding two numbers.

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