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In ye olde days, machine language and assembler/assembly language were often referred to as the same thing although of course they are different. Assembly langu
by SeanDav 14y ago
In ye olde days, machine language and assembler/assembly language were often referred to as the same thing although of course they are different. Assembly language is translated to machine language by the assembler. I believe (but may be wrong) that Elite was written in assembly language as one would have to be a masochist to write directly in machine language.
- waqf 14y agoThe Elite source code can be downloaded at Ian Bell (the other original author)'s site, http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/index.htm http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/index.htm. It is indeed written in assembly language (using the BBC BASIC assembler).
- jiggy2011 14y agoI remember an interview with Linus Torvalds where he said he wrote directly into machine code in some of his early (pre Linux) programs. Mainly because he couldn't afford an assembler and didn't yet realise the difference.