From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6aa6d133611419f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-26 13:45:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!washdc3-snf1!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D6A8D17.6AE874C3@raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thought this was interesting References: <3D6688E1.3A1797CC@san.rr.com> <5ee5b646.0208241501.71259703@posting.google.com> <3D682CFF.21CE8F23@acm.org> <3D697A46.2D3679C3@adaworks.com> <3D697F0E.7D4C1E8E@san.rr.com> <3D6A50DF.C9A56917@raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:18:31 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.93.55 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1030393112 147.24.93.55 (Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:18:32 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:18:32 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28430 Date: 2002-08-26T13:18:31-07:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@raytheon.com> writes: > > > I believe it was named after Hal Laning, the author of MAC which it was > > modeled after. > > It was then named Hal/S for the shuttle version. > > Interesting. I always thought it showed a bit of sense of humor -- to > name a programming language for a spacecraft after the rogue computer in > "2001, A Space Odyssey". > > - Bob Yeah, I would like to believe that also since 2001 is my favorite of all movies but, alas they didn't have that much of a sense of humor. It was also rumored that Clark chose HAL by taking the previous letters in the IBM acronym but he has said in interviews that he didn't do that - he just picked it at random. Jerry P.S. for a little history of the language Hal/S and other such stuff, see: http://www.unt.edu/UNT/departments/CC/Benchmarks/benchmarks_html/sepoct95/lunar.htm -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation (GPS/INS), Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------