Second-generation programming language

The label of second-generation programming language (2GL) is a generational way to categorize assembly languages. They belong to the low-level programming languages.

The term was coined to provide a distinction from higher level machine independent third-generation programming languages (3GLs) (such as COBOL, C, or JavaScript) and earlier first-generation programming languages (machine code)

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