From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:49:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180111005010.8309F156E523@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:33:20 +1100." <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801110830410.53831@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:33:20 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall writes:
> Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng was born on this day in 1934; a
> computer pioneer (one of the greats) he gave us things like the quicksort
> algorithm and ALGOLW (a neat language).
And conditional critical regions. And Monitors (jointly with
Per Brinch Hansen). And CSP. And much more. His "an axiomatic
basis for computer programming" paper was quite influential.
His Turing Award lecture "Emperor's Old Clothes" is well worth
(re)reading.
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2014/bib/hoare81emperor.pdf
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 21:33 Dave Horsfall
2018-01-11 0:20 ` Nemo
2018-01-11 1:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-11 10:21 ` helbig
2018-01-11 8:05 ` arnold
2018-01-11 0:49 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2018-01-11 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-10 23:52 Dave Horsfall
2019-01-10 23:58 ` Kyle Spiers
2019-01-11 0:06 ` Clem cole
[not found] <mailman.1.1547172001.17201.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2019-01-11 4:29 ` Paul McJones
2019-01-11 4:32 ` Paul McJones
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