Programming languages can be classified as low-level or high-level.
Which of these statements is true about code written using a low-level language instead of a high-level language?

Let's evaluate the statements comparing low-level languages (like Assembly) to high-level languages (like Python or Java). - **A. The code more closely resembles English.** False. High-level languages are designed to be more human-readable and closer to natural language. Low-level languages are closer to the computer's native machine code. - **B. The code is easier to write.** False. High-level languages use abstractions that make them much easier and faster to write code in. - **C. The code is not translated using a compiler.** True. High-level languages are typically translated by a compiler or an interpreter. Low-level assembly language is translated by a different type of translator called an assembler. - **D. The code is quicker to write.** False. Low-level code requires many more lines to perform the same task as a high-level language, making it slower to write. - **E. The code can directly manipulate computer registers.** True. This is a defining characteristic of low-level languages. They provide direct control over hardware components like CPU registers. - **F. The code never needs to be translated before being executed.** False. This is only true for machine code itself. Assembly language, a key type of low-level language, must be translated into machine code by an assembler. Both C and E are correct statements. This question asks for one of them.