Machine language is often (incorrectly) referred to as binary language. Binary is a numbering system comprised of zeros and ones. (Also thought of as true/false, or originally from the electronic ancestry, on and off.)
Machine language is the instructions that computers understand. These instructions are comprized of binary values which instruct the CPU to perform specific actions.
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Machine language uses very specific commands and sequence of execution, it's very hard for people to understand that. That's why high-level languages were invented. Even so they are not as efficient and fast, but it's much easier and faster to use it, then use low-level type of language.
Example of Assembly Code to tell the computer to display "Hello, world!":
section .text
global _begin_here
_begin_here:
mov edx,len
mov ecx,msg
mov ebx,1
mov eax,4
int 0x80
mov eax,1
int 0x80
section .data
msg db 'Hello, world!',0xa
len equ $ - msg
Example of Visual Basic Code to tell the computer to display "Hello, world!":
Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox "Hello, World!"
End Sub
Machine language can be executed without any translation. It is the native language of the machine. Symbolic languages must be translated into machine code, but they make the creation of machine code programs much easier for programmers. High-level languages like C++ make it easier still.
machine languages are the combination of binary numbers viz zeros and ones.But human language consist of letters and words using alphabets.
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HLL is what we humans use. Its full name is High Level Language. MLL is what machines use. Its full name is Machine Level Language. The difference is, HLL is our language (e.g English) and MLL is machines language (binary code) Binary code is 0s and 1s so "A" could be 010 in MLL. MLL is understood only by the computer and not humans
Machine language is something which can be understood by machine(Computer), it can understand only 0 and 1 i.e. the binary code. High level language is something which can be understood by human beings.. for ex... english.
| Feature | High-Level Language | Low-Level Language | Machine Language | |------------------------|------------------------------|----------------------------|-----------------------------| | Abstraction Level | High (closer to human language)| Medium (closer to hardware) | Low (binary code for CPU) | | Readability | Easy to read and write | Less readable, more complex | Not human-readable | | Portability | Highly portable across platforms | Less portable, hardware-specific | Not portable, specific to architecture | | Examples | Python, Java, C++ | Assembly language | Binary code (0s and 1s) |
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