High-level Assembly Language

From: Adem (adembaba_at_excite.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 30 Oct 2003 03:41:54 -0700

Hi,

I wonder if what the opinions of the gurus would be on this.

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_hla/0_Page_hla.html

They have reached v1.59 and make some very favorable noises
about it.

I'd like to know of your opinion --would it be useful.

Here is an except from the above link

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Don't Let The Name Fool You!

Some people seem to be confused by the phrase "High Level Assembler."
They seem to think that if you learn assembly language programming with
HLA you're not really learning "real assembly language." Nothing could
be farther from the truth. HLA is "real" assembly language, just made
easier for beginners so they can learn the language faster than ever
before! Anything you can do with a traditional assembler can be done
with HLA; HLA just happens to do a lot more than traditional assemblers!

HLA Description

The HLA (High Level Assembly) language was developed as a tool to help
teach assembly language programming and machine organization to
University students at the University of California, Riverside. The
basic idea was to teach students assembly language programming by
leveraging their knowledge of high level languages like C/C++ and
Pascal/Delphi. At the same time, HLA was designed to allow advanced
assembly language programmers write more readable and more powerful
assembly language code.

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Cheers,
Adem

Relevant Pages

  • HLA History
    ... The Self-proclaimed "assembly language historian" ... High-Level Assembler. ... HLA *has* been around long enough now ... using MASM 6.1. ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: TMA Assembler?
    ... I wish I was as good as Rene in ASM, but there is still some way to go, ... If "I am HLA" then I'm definitely the one to argue with. ... The actual assembly language ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: .EXE -> .ASM -> .EXE
    ... Are you saying that some people have trouble learning assembly language ... HLA from an experienced HLA programmer and see what happens. ... AoA has nothing to do with HLA. ... typical user trying to learn RosAsm. ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: Why There are no Asm Apps
    ... >> With HLA, ... > In the section on installing on Linux in the Reference Manual, ... HLA and its teaching approach for assembly language ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: Newbie
    ... >> I was trying to stay out of this war of yers but it sounds like HLA ... my "army" for the "Jihad" I am waging on assembly language, ... language that Rene strives to strike at HLA _harder_, ... If Rene isn't a Microsoft employee tricking everyone to destroy the ...
    (alt.lang.asm)