“The High Level Assembly (HLA) programming language began at UCR
in 1996 as a project of computer science professor Randall Hyde.
Hyde began his project envisioning a programming language that
everyone would love. He writes:“‘When I began writing HLA in the fall of 1996, I had visions of
creating one of those ‘universally accepted’ language projects that
everyone would love. I’d get big ‘pats on the back’ and people
would talk about how great I was. [But] as the design for HLA began
to solidify, and I had to make some hard decisions about
compromises in the language, those visions of glory faded
quickly…'”
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