Difference between a microcontroller and a microprocessor?

[craze4physics]

what is the difference between a microcontroller and a microprocessor?
wat are the prescribed languages for programming a m.c

 

[MATLABdude]

what is the difference between a microcontroller and a microprocessor?
wat are the prescribed languages for programming a m.c

The strict difference is that a microprocessor is just the "core" processing unit (logic operations, interpretation of machine code), with some basic inputs and outputs. A microcontroller contains a microprocessor, and additional on-board peripherals (A/D converters, DACs, servo controllers, fancy interface units, etc.)

In practice however, the line blurs a fair bit between self-declared microprocessors and self-declared microcontrollers (does, say, a floating point unit count as a peripheral?) But that's a semantics issue.

 

[berkeman]

wat are the prescribed languages for programming a m.c

Usually C or assembly language.