[TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!
Clem cole
clemc at ccc.com
Fri Jan 11 10:06:08 AEST 2019
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 at horsfall.org> wrote:
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> [Not sure whether this is more appropriate for COFF instead, so it's here; advice (apart from STFU) gratefully accepted.)
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> 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).
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> -- Dave
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