On 10 January 2018 at 16:33, Dave Horsfall <dave at 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.