Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition

1.9. 1.9 Some Basic HLA Control Structures

The mov, add, and sub instructions, while valuable, aren't sufficient to let you write meaningful programs. You will need to complement these instructions with the ability to make decisions and create loops in your HLA programs before you can write anything other than a trivial program. HLA provides several high level control structures that are very similar to control structures found in high level languages. These include if..then..elseif..else..endif, while..endwhile, repeat..until, and so on. By learning these statements you will be armed and ready to write some real programs.

Before discussing these high level control structures, it's important to point out that these are not real 80×86 assembly language ...