Hi Dave,


Am 11.01.2018 um 02:24 schrieb Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>:

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.''

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