An aerospace engineering team is developing a desktop telemetry visualization and analysis application for a Mars exploration mission. While the engineers are highly skilled in writing low-level assembly code for the rover's on-board microcontrollers, they opt to write the desktop visualization application in a high-level language instead.
Explain why the team would choose to develop this desktop application in a high-level language rather than a low-level language.
48 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Classification of programming languages and translators. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.