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* [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!
@ 2018-01-10 21:33 Dave Horsfall
  2018-01-11  0:20 ` Nemo
  2018-01-11  0:49 ` Bakul Shah
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2018-01-10 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)


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).

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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* [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!
@ 2019-01-10 23:52 Dave Horsfall
  2019-01-10 23:58 ` Kyle Spiers
  2019-01-11  0:06 ` Clem cole
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-01-10 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

[Not sure whether this is more appropriate for COFF instead, so it's 
here; advice (apart from STFU) gratefully accepted.)

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 (which became qsort() in Unix) and ALGOLW (a neat language).

-- Dave

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2018-01-11 10:21     ` helbig
2018-01-11  8:05   ` arnold
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