Back لغة برمجة منخفضة المستوى Arabic Aşağı səviyyəli dil Azerbaijani Мова праграмавання нізкага ўзроўню Byelorussian Език за програмиране от ниско ниво Bulgarian Programski jezik niskog nivoa BS Llenguatge de programació de baix nivell Catalan Nižší programovací jazyk Czech Γλώσσα προγραμματισμού χαμηλού επιπέδου Greek Low-level programming language English Lenguaje de bajo nivel Spanish
In computer science, a low-level programming language is a programming language that involves knowledge of both computer hardware and the coding used to make the computer hardware perform actions. The advantage of low-level programming languages compared to high-level programming languages is that they can directly communicate with the computer hardware to do actions. There is less need for an interpreter to convert programming languages into code that the computer understands. Low-level programming languages require knowledge of the hardware to make the most of what the hardware can do. The term "low-level" usually refers to assembly language.
A programming language can be called "low-level" because the actions the code describes are close to the computer hardware. A "high-level" language can be seen as "far away" or "high above" the computer hardware and closer to the programmer.