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From: "Ben Brosgol" <brosgol@world.std.com>
Subject: "HAL" acronym (was Re: Thought this was interesting)
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> > > 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