14. Assembly vs. Machine Language

• Assembly Language uses mnemonics, digital numbers, comments, etc.

• Machine Language instructions are just a sequences of 1s and 0s.

• Readability of assembly language instructions is much better than the machine language instructions:

      Assembly Language   Machine Language (in Hex)
      -----------------   --------------------------
      inc result          FF060A00
      mov size,  45       C7060C002D00
      and var,   128      80260E0080
      add value, 10       83060F000A