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For the computer languages under discussion, we have listed their evolution and
classified them. There are procedural and non-procedural, compiled and
interpreted, and machine-dependent and non-machine-dependent languages.
Assembler language programs are machine-dependent, because the language
is a symbolic version of the machine’s language on which the program is
running. Assembler language instructions can differ from one machine to
another, so an Assembler language program written for one machine might not
be portable to another. Rather, it would most likely need to be rewritten to use
the instruction set of the other machine. A program written in a high-level
language (HLL) would run ...