[TUHS] Happy birthday, C.A.R. Hoare!

Kyle Spiers ksspiers at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 09:58:18 AEST 2019


Do you have these birthday posts in a google calendar I can add?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 15:52 Dave Horsfall <dave at 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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