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Programming language close to hardware

A low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture, memory or underlying physical hardware; commands or functions in the language are structurally similar to a processor's instructions. These languages provide the programmer with full control over program memory and the underlying machine code instructions. Because of the low level of abstraction between the language and machine language, low-level languages are sometimes described as being "close to the hardware". Wikipedia →

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Read the overview: Low-level programming languageA 5-minute orientation
Pick up a classic book: Modern Operating SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
Read the landmark paper: An architecture independent programming language for low-level visionCited 31 times
Go sideways: X86 calling conventionsA closely related topic
Go sideways: X86 assembly languageA closely related topic

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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

An architecture independent programming language for low-level vision

Leonard G.C. Hamey, Jon A. Webb, I-Chen Wu · 1989 · Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing · 31 citations
A teaching approach for bridging the gap between low‐level and high‐level programming using assembly language learning for small microcontrollers

Dimosthenis E. Bolanakis, Georgios A. Evangelakis, Euripidis Glavas · 2011 · Computer Applications in Engineering Education · 13 citations
Low-level-device programming with a high-level language

S.J. Young · 1980 · IEE Proceedings E Computers and Digital Techniques · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

Modern Operating SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos · 1992
Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
Code CompleteSteve McConnell · 1993
An introduction to computer scienceJean-Paul Tremblay, Richard B. Bunt · 1979
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
Why programs failAndreas Zeller · 2005
The UNIX operating systemChristian, Kaare, Kaare Christian · 1983

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