11 Jan
2018
11 Jan
'18
6:20 a.m.
On 10 January 2018 at 16:33, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
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.