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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:20:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzx-PrMHAt_8FVSwtZEkOzWbrrKAXk2iezmoef_kotmNag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801110830410.53831@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On 10 January 2018 at 16:33, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 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).

Certainly agree with your opinion of Hoare but did the "W" in ALGOLW
not stand for Wirth?

N.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-11  0:20 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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
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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