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HAL Forum
Hansa Application Language, HAL
Background
HAL is a powerful tool for building and customizing business applications. It includes programming language, compiler and runtime. HAL will make business application development easy and will give you the possibility to take full advantage of the latest technology in your daily business. HAL is developed by Hansa World and is the foundation that the application suite Hansa World Enterprise is built upon.

The Hansa World Enterprise Application Suite
Hansa World Enterprise (formerly Hansa Financials) is a full scale ERP system including more than 40 integrated modules.

The Programming Language HAL
Hansa World Enterprise is built with HAL as the primary development tool. HAL can be used to add or customize functionality in all parts of the system. The style of the language is similar to that of Pascal, but it is extended with a large number of functions for supporting all the special needs of a modern business application. For example a wide range of functions facilitating report writing.