Assembly mixups

[Diagathon]

Hello, I recently came across The Art of Assembly Language, which I found in my Programming Compendium. Anywho, I noted something odd, the author programs in an "HLA Language", which I have never heard of before o.o As a wannabe systems programmer, I feel a strong need to learn assembly, but is this HLA the right way to go? If not, what texts would you suggest I learn from? Thanks!

[led mike]

Diagathon wrote:

I feel a strong need to learn assembly, but is this HLA the right way to go?

Well there is no standard for Assembly so I'm not sure what criteria one could use for choosing. HLA is touted for simplifying learning assembly so it seems as good a place to start as any, right. You might find this an interesting read.[^]

led mike

[bilal haider 0]

Its great to use a high level assembler(HLA) for developing applications in less time and with ease. But if you want to have real fun try Assembler. A good book for writing low level routines "Assembly Programing" Vitaly maljim I don't know the exact book name and author i have studied it one year ago. main chapters covers ->Basic understanding ->Keyboard,Mouse,Printer,Programing serial ports and Video Programing. We had a great fun at that time. :)

[Diagathon]

hmm It's difficult for me to know how to ask, as I have virtually no experience with any form of Assembly Language (C++ guy) I always though of assembler as a series of statements such as: mov ax,bx push ax or something similar. For someone wanting to learn how to get down to that machine level, is there a specific way I should look say, for example, I wanted to learn about how to work on an Intel-ran system? (Apologies if I just asked the same question, I am truely lost) Thanks!

[led mike]

hehe, clicked the wrong button

Diagathon wrote:

It's difficult for me to know how to ask

Diagathon wrote:

I always though of assembler as a series of statements such as:

Did you even look at that site I gave you a link to. I would think you would not be in the same place you were with your original post if you had taken a close look at that site.

led mike

[Diagathon]

I did not dive too deep into it. To be honest, I forgot about it XD I'll take another look :P

[vikas amin]

I did assembly programming , but I stay away from it . Now a days the compilers are smart they do that task for me .

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