Programming in High Level Programming Languages

Assembler is much easier to program in than machine code. But even assembly is still quite tedious to program in, because you still have to keep track of loading individual variables and moving them. The very best assembly programmes can generally, at least in many cases, produce programs that are more efficient than high level programms once ave been compiled. However, it takes much longer to write those programes. And so generally these days, it's just quicker and easier to write a program in a high level language and have it automatically converted into machine language by the compiler.