[Dave Moll]

I must admit to preferring to write programs in assembly languages (a symbolic representation of the machine code), as they give a direct control of the processor that is lost in high-level languages such as BASIC, C, C++ and the multitude of others available. The only downside to assembly languages is that each is specific to a particular processor, so it involves learning a new variation with different facilities when moving from one sort of computer to another.