Let’s start right off with a controversial claim: Forth is the hacker’s programming language. Coding in Forth is a little bit like writing assembly language, interactively, for a strange CPU ...

We all probably know that for ultimate control and maximum performance, you need assembly language. No matter how good your compiler is, you’ll almost always be able to do better by using your ...

Presents the organization and operation of a conventional computer, including principal instruction types, data representation, addressing modes, program control, I/O, assembly language programming, ...

See assembly language, compiler and interpreter. Machine languages differ substantially. What may take one instruction in one machine can take 10 instructions in another. See RISC. Machine ...