11 Jan
2018
11 Jan
'18
3:33 a.m.
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).
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11 Jan
11 Jan
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.
7:24 a.m.
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...
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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.'' 
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. 
6:49 a.m.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:33:20 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall writes:
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).
And conditional critical regions. And Monitors (jointly with
Per Brinch Hansen). And CSP. And much more. His "an axiomatic
basis for computer programming" paper was quite influential.
His Turing Award lecture "Emperor's Old Clothes" is well worth
(re)reading.
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/2014/bib/hoare81emperor.pdf
12 Jan
12 Jan
3:50 a.m.
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Bakul Shah wrote:
And conditional critical regions. And Monitors
(jointly with Per Brinch
Hansen). And CSP. And much more. His "an axiomatic basis for computer
programming" paper was quite influential. His Turing Award lecture
"Emperor's Old Clothes" is well worth (re)reading.
Noted; thanks.
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