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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey<NOSPAM>"@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