From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: helbig@mailbox.org (helbig@mailbox.org) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:21:42 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Dave, Am 11.01.2018 um 02:24 schrieb Dave Horsfall : > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Nemo wrote: > >> Certainly agree with your opinion of Hoare but did the "W" in ALGOLW not stand for Wirth? > > Dunno, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_W we have: > > ``ALGOL W is a programming language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X > by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60 in IFIP > Working Group 2.1.'' As Hoare reported in his Turing Award Lecture "The Emperors Old Clothes" http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2014/bib/hoare81emperor.pdf, Wirth soley designed Algol W based on proposals of a small group of which Hoare was a member. Greetings Wolfgang -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: