Complete online course in assembly language of Randall Hyde's is really course in assembly language?

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 06:39:09PM -0400, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:

> On 4/4/2014 4:44 PM, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote:
> 
> Complete online course in assembly language of Randall Hyde's is really 
> course in assembly language?
> Is written in FreeBSD Developers' Handbook:
> "This chapter does not explain the basics of assembly language.There are 
> enough resources about that (for a complete online course in assembly 
> language, see Randall Hyde's Art of Assembly Language;"  
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x86.html
> 
> The biggest gripe I have with this book is that it teaches ?High Level 
> Assembly?, essentially an entirely different language from assembly, built 
> using assembly macros. It?s great maybe if you have no programming 
> experience what so ever?although even then I don?t know why you would learn 
> HLA instead of a real language.
> Learning HLA instead of assembly is frustrating for learn the true Assembly.
> 

Here in spite of the indication that this post was probably
just a troll hit.  
    
That makes it good.    
The onlyt reasonable way to program in assembly is to make 
significant use of macros and once a reasonable set of macros
are developed, one should no longer be using machine code except
in some unusual circumstances.

////jerry