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
11 Jan
11 Jan
5:58 a.m.
Do you have these birthday posts in a google calendar I can add?
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 15:52 Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
[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
6:06 a.m.
Dave. The w in Algolw was Wirth. He was at Stanford at the time. It was written in
PL/360 btw. The sources are googlable. FWIW Pascal was done a couple of years later
with lessons learned from Algolw and reaction to Algol68.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Jan 10, 2019, at 6:52 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
[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
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