From: "Ben Brosgol" <brosgol@world.std.com>
Subject: "HAL" acronym (was Re: Thought this was interesting)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:10:32 GMT
Date: 2002-09-02T15:10:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <H1tH4F.CFI@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cAsa9.1977$eH2.431894671@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com
> > > PS: Hands up if you have a copy of Mike Ryer's book. Bonus
> points if
> > > you know what HAL stands for. :-)
> >
> > I believe it was named after Hal Laning, the author of MAC which it
> was
> > modeled after.
>
> Maybe. I was told a couple of definitions, including "High-level
> Assembly Language", but never with a straight face.
When I was at Intermetrics in the '70s I recall hearing two explanations:
1) Named after Hal Laning, as was previously noted
2) Houston Algorithmic Language
Ben Brosgol
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-23 19:10 Thought this was interesting Darren New
2002-08-24 23:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-25 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-08-26 0:45 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-26 1:05 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 5:12 ` Pat Rogers
2002-08-26 16:01 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-08-26 16:21 ` Pat Rogers
2002-09-02 15:10 ` Ben Brosgol [this message]
2002-09-03 5:39 ` "HAL" acronym (was Re: Thought this was interesting) Manny Apalisok
2002-09-03 11:11 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-26 17:34 ` Thought this was interesting Robert A Duff
2002-08-26 20:18 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-08-26 14:20 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-26 18:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-08-25 3:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-26 10:29 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-26 10:30 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-25 3:27 ` tmoran
2002-08-25 14:48 ` Thought this was interesting (They Write the Right Stuff) Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-25 19:48 ` Thought this was interesting Darren New
2002-08-26 14:01 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-27 16:13 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-27 20:07 ` Thought this was interesting (OT) Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-27 20:21 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-27 21:48 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-28 9:23 ` AG
2002-08-28 9:33 ` AG
2002-08-28 15:05 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-08-28 16:50 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-28 15:07 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-08-29 17:12 ` Thought this was interesting (Bounds Checking!) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-29 18:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-29 18:31 ` Ryan
2002-08-28 13:29 ` Thought this was interesting (OT) Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-27 22:24 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-28 2:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-08-28 13:26 ` Gautier
2002-08-28 4:01 ` Pat Rogers
2002-08-28 8:06 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-28 2:52 ` SteveD
2002-08-28 11:09 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 7:58 ` Thought this was interesting Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-28 9:41 ` AG
2002-08-29 1:23 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-08-29 3:02 ` SteveD
2002-08-29 7:30 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-09-03 15:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-27 18:48 ` tmoran
2002-08-28 3:10 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-26 14:29 ` Ted Dennison
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