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    Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng, also known as Tony Hoare or by his initials C. A. R. Hoare (/hɔːr/; born 11 January 1934) is a British computer...
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  • 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare, and subsequently refined by Hoare and other researchers. The original ideas were seeded...
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  • Albert Alfred Hoare, known as Bert Hoare (1874–1962), South Australian politician Des Hoare (born 1934), Australian cricketer Desmond Hoare (Royal Navy...
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    sorting algorithm. Quicksort was developed by British computer scientist Tony Hoare in 1959 and published in 1961. It is still a commonly used algorithm for...
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  • error. It is one of the most common types of software weaknesses, and Tony Hoare, who introduced the concept, has referred to it as a "billion dollar mistake"...
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  • language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60. ALGOL W is a relatively simple upgrade of...
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  • made by Elliott Brothers in the United Kingdom. It was implemented by Tony Hoare and others. It differed slightly from the reference version of ALGOL,...
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    computers competing for access to tape drive peripherals. Soon after, Tony Hoare gave the problem its present form. Five philosophers dine together at...
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    related quicksort sorting algorithm, it was developed by Tony Hoare, and thus is also known as Hoare's selection algorithm. Like quicksort, it is efficient...
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  • and Clojure's core.async. CSP was first described in a 1978 article by Tony Hoare, but has since evolved substantially. CSP has been practically applied...
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  • design principles: As the last paragraph of an article published in 1972, Tony Hoare has provided some general advice for any software project: “So my advice...
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  • heraldscotland.com. 29 May 2019. "Minder 035. Poetic Justice, Innit? - Written by Tony Hoare #3.11". minder.org. 1 December 2019. "Where the cast of Only Fools and...
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  • Ershov Robert W. Floyd Jeremy Gibbons Julien Green David Gries Eric Hehner Tony Hoare Jørn Jensen Katz^ Peter Landin Tom Maibaum Conor McBride John McCarthy...
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    developed by David May and others at Inmos (trademark INMOS), advised by Tony Hoare, as the native programming language for their transputer microprocessors...
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  • interpretation in the neighborhood of each command. In 1969, Tony Hoare published a paper on Hoare logic seeded by Floyd's ideas, now sometimes collectively...
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    mathematical formal methods. Computer scientists Edsger W. Dijkstra and Tony Hoare regard instructions for computer programs as mathematical sentences and...
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    the inaugural Edsger W. Dijkstra Memorial Lecture on 12 October 2010. Tony Hoare, Emeritus Professor at Oxford and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research...
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    Hoare, FRS took over the leadership in 1977. The PRG ethos is summed up by the following quotation from Strachey, found and promulgated by Tony Hoare...
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  • of the committee. ALGOL 60 inspired many languages that followed it. Tony Hoare remarked: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not...
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    13 was excellent." ALGOL 60 inspired many languages that followed it. Tony Hoare remarked: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not...
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    into the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm. In 1969, Tony Hoare introduces the Hoare logic, a form of axiomatic semantics. In 1969, William Alvin...
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    Ershov Robert W. Floyd Jeremy Gibbons Julien Green David Gries Eric Hehner Tony Hoare Jørn Jensen Katz^ Peter Landin Tom Maibaum Conor McBride John McCarthy...
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  • (compile-time) guarantee that a void call will never arise. In a 2009 talk, Tony Hoare traced the invention of the null pointer to his design of the ALGOL W...
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    computer scientist Bobby Hersom was an employee from 1953 to 1954, and Sir Tony Hoare was an employee there from August 1960 to 1968. He wrote an ALGOL 60 compiler...
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  • Henman (born 1974), tennis player Tom Hiddleston (born 1981), actor Sir Tony Hoare (born 1934), computer scientist Brent Hoberman, co-founder of lastminute...
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  • defined using BNF. ALGOL 60 inspired many languages that followed it. Tony Hoare remarked: "... it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but...
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  • Science: Proceedings of the 1999 Oxford-Microsoft Symposium in Honour of Sir Tony Hoare, Palgrave, pp. 187–214, arXiv:cs/0011047, Bibcode:2000cs.......11047K...
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  • the Pi calculus (see section Milner, et al. below). The publication by Tony Hoare in 1978 of the original Communicating Sequential Processes was different...
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  • Ershov Robert W. Floyd Jeremy Gibbons Julien Green David Gries Eric Hehner Tony Hoare Jørn Jensen Katz^ Peter Landin Tom Maibaum Conor McBride John McCarthy...
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