From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:24:15 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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."