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Question #5:
Research in the net the most recent assembler. Describe its history, nature and applications. Evaluate this assembler from its predecessor.

Answer:
Historically, a large number of programs have been written entirely in assembly language. Operating systems were almost exclusively written in assembly language until the widespread acceptance of C in the 1970s and early 1980s. Many commercial applications were written in assembly language as well, including a large amount of the IBM mainframe software written by large corporations.The Assembler for the VIC-20 was written by Don French and published by French Silk. At 1639 bytes in length, its author believes it is the smallest symbolic assembler ever written.
Typically a modern assembler creates object code by translating assembly instruction mnemonics into opcodes, and by resolving symbolic names for memory locations and other entities.^[1] The use of symbolic references is a key feature of assemblers, saving tedious calculations and manual address updates after program modifications,Assemblers are generally simpler to write than compilers for high-level languages, and have been available since the 1950s.






Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Assembler