From: Clem cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:06:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AD08D743-C7B3-448F-92F7-777FBD112B78@ccc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1901111039180.65590@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Dave. The w in Algolw was Wirth. He was at Stanford at the time. It was written in PL/360 btw. The sources are googlable. FWIW Pascal was done a couple of years later with lessons learned from Algolw and reaction to Algol68.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
> On Jan 10, 2019, at 6:52 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> [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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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-10 23:52 Dave Horsfall
2019-01-10 23:58 ` Kyle Spiers
2019-01-11 0:06 ` Clem cole [this message]
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2019-01-11 4:29 ` Paul McJones
2019-01-11 4:32 ` Paul McJones
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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
2018-01-11 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
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