11 Jan
2019
11 Jan
'19
5:52 a.m.
[Not sure whether this is more appropriate for COFF instead, so it's
here; advice (apart from STFU) gratefully accepted.)
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 (which became qsort() in Unix) and ALGOLW (a neat language).
-- Dave