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| May 19 at 16:13 | comment | added | Jay | Well, yes, IF all computers had the same instruction set, then you could write one assembly language that would run on all of them. But that's a big IF. IF everyone in the world spoke English, then I could go anywhere in the world and people would understand what I say. IF pigs could fly, then they'd have wings. | |
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| Sep 9, 2015 at 10:54 | comment | added | PJTraill | If by assembly language you mean one giving complete control over the machine code generated for a specific type (or family) of hardware, it would be possible to define one language ”for all computers” in our world at a given moment, but it would have to keep changing. It would admittedly (if well designed) shorten the learning curve for coding for a new architecture, but I expect any job you would want to do with it rather than a compiler would only apply to a tiny fraction of architectures. That computers are the same at an abstract level is a red herring, it is about machine code. | |
| Sep 7, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | "if an arguably tiny one" -- there's your two kinds of programmer right there. Those who consider C a low-level language because its basic operations look a lot like the kinds of things that appear in CPU instruction sets, and those who consider C a high-level language because it's not the same instruction set as the machine. | |
| Sep 7, 2015 at 18:48 | history | answered | Raphael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |