Origins and Goals
HLA was originally conceived as a tool to teach assembly language programming at the college/university level. The goal is to leverage students' existing programming knowledge when learning assembly language to get them up to speed as fast as possible. Most students taking an assembly language programming course have already been introduced to high-level control structures such as IF, WHILE, FOR, etc. HLA allows students to immediately apply that programming knowledge to assembly language coding early in their course, allowing them to master other prerequisite subjects in assembly before learning how to code low-level forms of these control structures. "The Art of Assembly Language Programming" by Randall Hyde uses HLA for this purpose.
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