From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:20:23 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 10 January 2018 at 16:33, Dave Horsfall 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.