An embedded systems engineer is developing a flight control program for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). They choose to write the critical control loops in a low-level language rather than a high-level language. One characteristic of a low-level language is that its instructions have a direct one-to-one relationship with machine code instructions.
Describe one other characteristic of a low-level language.
41 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Programming languages, covering Low-level and high-level languages and Interpreters versus compilers. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.