... fixed amount of material in a course, then HLA would have the negative side-effect of reducing what the students learn in their course. However, the real purpose of HLA is to make the educational ... teaching assembly language. It combines the syntax of a high level lan-guage with the low-level programming capabilities of assembly language. Together with the HLA Standard Library, it makes learning ... relieve the students of some of the drudgery of assembly language programming just as the UCR Standard Library had. After three years of part-time effort, the end result was the “High Level Assembler,”...