S99: HLL

Author: cognominal

S99-glossary.pod

@@ -593,7 +593,27 @@ system.
 =head2 hash
 
 A data type, conveniently available in variables starting with the percent sign
-C<%> and provided by type C<Hash>.
+C<%> and provided by types conformant to the C<Associative> role like the C<Hash> type.
+Often called associative table in other languages.
+
+=head2 High Level Language
+
+A high level language provides abstractions that decouples it from specific operating systems
+and processors. Perl 6 is such a language and provides some interoperability with other HLLs when they are
+compiled with the rakudo toolkit.
+Some of these abstractions like arrays, associative tables, integers, floats, strings and objects are common
+to many languages but specific semantic and underlying type L</representation>s may differ.
+Also, a given language may provide many flavors of them.
+Perl 6 provides common L</concrete syntax> to access them.
+C<MVMHLLConfig> is the L</MoarVM> C level structure that hooks
+to the underlying language specific representations.
+The L</metamodel> allows to express specific semantics proper to a given L</OO> language.
+L</Zavolaj> provides interoperabiity with languages which compilers
+follow C language linking conventions.
+
+=head2 HLL
+
+See L</High Level Language>.
 
 =head2 HN