11 Jan
2018
11 Jan
'18
2:05 p.m.
Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10 January 2018 at 16:33, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Indeed it did. Wirth did AlgolW before he did Pascal.
Arnold
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.