The textbook ASSEMBLERS AND LOADERS...

From: The_Sage (a.b_at_c.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:30:24 -0700

Chapter six (Special Assembler Types) states...

   A high-level assembler language (HLA) is a programming language where each
   instruction is translated into a few machine instructions. The translator is
   somewhat more complex than an assembler, but much simpler than a compiler.
   Such a language should not have features like the if, for, and case control
   structures, complex arithmetic, logical expressions, and multi-dimensional
   arrays. It should consist of simple instructions, closely resembling
   traditional assembler instructions, and of a few simple data types.

   A high-level assembler language (HLA) is a language that combines most of the
   features of higher-level languages (easy to use control structures,
   variables, scope, data types, blockstructure) with one important feature of
   assembler languages namely, machine dependence.

...

   The best known examples of HLAs are the NEAT/3 for the NCR Century computers
   [85,86], Wirth’s PL360 [61], a language designed specifically for the IBM 360
   computers, Bell and Wichmann’s PL516 [63], an Algol-like assembler language
   for the Honeywell DDP516 computer, and BABBAGE [87] a language specifically
   designed as a HLA for the GE 4000 family of minicomputers. NEAT/3 and BABBAGE
   are HLAs according to the first definition above, while PL360 and PL516 have
   been designed in the spirit of the second definition.

This is real life folks, not the make believe crap you've been listening to.

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