Randall Hyde (born 1956) is best known as the author of ''The Art of Assembly Language'', a popular book on

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programming. He created the

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in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA) language.

Biography

Hyde was educated, and later became a lecturer, at the

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. He earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1982, and a master's degree in Computer Science in 1987 - both from UC Riverside. His area of specialization is compilers and other system software, and he has written compilers, assemblers, operating systems and control software. He was a lecturer at

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from 1988 to 1993 and a lecturer at UC Riverside from 1989 to 2000. While teaching at UC Riverside and Cal Poly, Pomona, Randy frequently taught classes pertaining to assembly programming (beginning and advanced), software design, compilers, and programming language theory. He was founder and president of Lazer Microsystems, which wrote the SmartBASIC interpreter and ADAM Calc for the

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. According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM

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2.2. He also wrote the 1983

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'' while at Lazer, published by Fox Video Games. Hyde has made many posts to the alt.lang.asm

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in the past. , Hyde operates and is president of Plantation Productions, Inc., a

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Books

Modern books

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Early Apple programming books

* How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language (1981) * p-Source (A Guide to the Apple Pascal System) (1983)

References

External links

Webster: The Place on the Net to Learn Assembly Language

Randall Hyde's homepageThe Rebirth of Assembly Language Programming
by Dan Romanchik, Application Development Trends, October 13, 2003, an interview with Randy Hyde about assembly language
The Fallacy of Premature Optimization
ACM Ubiquity, 2006, Volume 7, Issue 24. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hyde, Randall University of California, Riverside alumni Living people Computer programmers American technology writers 1956 births