{"id":7753,"date":"2010-04-14T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/14\/high-level-assembly-language-p\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T10:07:13","slug":"high-level-assembly-language-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/high-level-assembly-language-p\/","title":{"rendered":"High Level Assembly Language Programming Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randall Hyde’s book is now out in it’s second edition.
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\nYour computer has little dohickies in it that know how to read and respond to commands that are, in turn, stored in (and read from) other dohickies.<\/p>\n

These instructions are collectively known as “machine language.” If you do an programming at all, you probably know this. A form of this very low level language that is designed to be somewhat more readable by humans is known as Assembly Language.<\/p>\n

Higher level languages allow programmers to avoid messy details like the kind of hardware their program may run on, and higher level languages allow access to powerful commands and functions, some stored in libraries that have been developed with a great deal of thought to solve general problems. Lower level languages such as Assembly don’t allow this kind of power and flexibility, but they do allow detailed control over what the program is doing, and they allow compactness and speed. Ultimately, everything you do on the computer, in any application or written in any language is converted into machine language before anything happens.<\/p>\n

So writing programs in Assembly language is like going to your basement and fiddling with dials and piping and other things to operate your furnace, while higher level programming, or just using applications, is like using the thermostat. More or less.<\/p>\n

And yes, people still do write in Assembly Language. And now, if you want to try this out for yourself, there is a great new book available to help you out. This is the second edition of Randall Hyde’s “The Art of Assembly Language<\/a>\"\".”<\/p>\n

In particular, this book teaches and documents a form of Assembly Language called “HLA” or “High Level Assembly.” This is an evolved form of Assembly that serves as a front end to lower level code for X86 machines. It has a handful of higher-level features that bring very onerous tasks under control. The book, The Art of Assembly Language<\/a>\"\", is written by the developer of HLA, so you are getting the information directly from the horse’s mouth, as it were.<\/p>\n

Happy programming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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