11 Jan
2018
11 Jan
'18
4:21 p.m.
Hi Dave,
Am 11.01.2018 um 02:24 schrieb Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>:
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Nemo wrote:
As Hoare reported in his Turing Award Lecture "The Emperors Old Clothes"
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2014/bib/hoare81emperor.pdf,
Wirth soley designed Algol W based on proposals of a small group of which Hoare was a
member.
Greetings
Wolfgang
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.''