Talk:High Level Assembly

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Maybe this article is better off deleted. After the first two sentences, it is POV hell...--Fangz 23:34, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

YES Belgian man 19:45, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] is it a language or an assembler?

The Assembler article says HLA is an assembler, and that it's in the public domain. Can anyone comment on either of these statement? If it's in the public domain, can someone provide a link to it? Can anyone provide a link to any webpage which proves the existence of HLA? Is the program binary in the public domain (making it freeware) or is the program's source code in the public domain (making it free software)?? Thanks for any help. Gronky 19:42, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

It is one varient of Intel sytnax 80x86 assembly language which has at least one implementation (assembler) supporting it. You already posted a link since you posted the above the comment, so no need for response there. Both the implementation binary and its source, along with the source of the library are all in public domain. -- KTC 21:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

HLA stand for High Language Assembly

The homepage listed in the article says "High Level Assembler", not high language. RJFJR (talk) 13:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

It's High Level Assembly. I edited some of the text to be more readable, but the article definitely needs more work. It is both an implementation of an assembler and an offshoot, if you will, of x86 assembly language. The assembly language macros comprise the language aspect... reserved words that stand for other discrete chunks of code, combinations of which provide a useful manner in which to write asm code, much more expressively and intuitively than otherwise possible. Also, it should definitely not be deleted. There is enormous value in understanding and documenting this subject. (JRowe)