Randall Hyde

Randall Hyde, born in 1956, is best known as the author of The Art of Assembly Language, a popular book on assembly language programming. He created the Lisa assembler in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA) language, an assembler that adds higher level constructs, data types and object-oriented features. According to his English Wikipedia biography he earned a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1982 and a master's degree in 1987, both from the University of California, Riverside, where he later lectured; his area of specialization is compilers and other system software. He also lectured at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and founded Lazer Microsystems, which wrote the SmartBASIC interpreter for the Coleco Adam. He wrote the Write Great Code series of books.