An aerospace engineer is writing the firmware for an attitude control thruster on a CubeSat satellite. The engineer chooses to write the timing-critical routines in assembly language using mnemonics (such as MOV, ADD, and BNE) rather than directly in binary machine code.
State one benefit to the engineer of using assembly mnemonics instead of binary machine code when developing this firmware.
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.