Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:26 UTC
For Linux users, HLA is a strong programming tool that allows them to create powerful programs on a variety of different levels. As HLA becomes more feature-rich, additional applications will be written using HLA under Linux. With HLA and Linux, programmers can develop new and exciting applications anyone can use. Read more.
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Do a bit more research before you post. Please.
I've looked at HLA before, though I haven't had the opportunity to create any sample programs with it. It was principally designed as a teaching language for assembly programmers. Therefore it comes with a number of high-range constructs to help programmers get started early out. However if you follow through the HLA course, you learn to work with less high-level constructs and more raw assembly, until at the end you're using assembly on its own.
It really is a very good way to teach assembly.
With regard to post about the C syntax, take another look. Bar the preprocessor declarations, the syntax is heavily derived from Pascal.
One thing I disagree with is the idea of using it as a general purpose programming language, it wasn't designed for that, and while I can't say for sure, I'd imagine programmers would run into awkward obstacles once they moved onto the development of larger, non-trivial applications.
For people looking to use HLA to learn assembly, consider the "Art of Assembly" book: http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/index.html