From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:24:15 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801111215320.53831@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzx-PrMHAt_8FVSwtZEkOzWbrrKAXk2iezmoef_kotmNag@mail.gmail.com>
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.''
It was a brilliant language, and it got me hooked on structural
programming etc; hitherto my knowledge was confined to BASIC (shudder) and
FORTRAN (double shudder). And then SNOBOL blew my mind, and PL/I, and
PL/360, and Pascal, and...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-11 1:24 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
2018-01-11 1:24 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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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