machine language
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences The set of instructions that a particular computer is designed to execute; generated from an assembly language by an assembler, or from a high-level language by a compiler or interpreter.
- Machine language is certainly the most efficient language on the Apple, albeit the least pleasant in which to code. The Monitor has special facilities for those of you who are determined to use machine language to simplify creating, writing, and debugging machine language programs.1979, Apple II Reference Manual, Cupertino: Apple Computer Inc., page 48:
- Though machine language is efficient for computers, it is inefficient for programmers.1986, Lawrence S. Orilia, Computers and Information:
- Synonyms
- machine code