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The article is not clear on whether the subject is KBE, MBE, CBE, &c. as per Order of the British Empire, which I think is an important detail to add. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.251.27.222 (talk) 04:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
The article said:
The quotation has been attributed to Knuth because it was written by Knuth. It appears in his article Structured Programming with GO TO Statements that appeared in ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1974, p. 268. A more complete version is:
-- Dominus 14:27, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
On further investigation, I find that Knuth does attribute the "premature optimization" aphorism to Hoare. (Although not, obviously, the particular statement of it quoted above.) See Knuth's 1989 paper The Errors of TeX, section F:
-- Dominus 02:03, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I don't know whether it's worth adding but we was just given an honorary degree by Queen Mary, University of London today.
GalaxiaGuy 4 July 2005 22:12 (UTC)
The article claims:
On what grounds is it "the world's most widely used algorithm of any kind"? Is it really more commonly used than, say, matrix multiplication, or floating point addition, etc? Neilc 05:04, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
You need to re-read the quotation. The author says "the world's most widely used SORTING algorithm," which is probably correct.
On the one occasion that I spoke to Tony he told me that the atmosphere changed dramatically after he the U-2 incident ... so that's why I've included that because it clearly affected him.
When I knew (of) him he was nearly 70 and attending the gym regularly ... he also wore a Panama hat ... Panama hat + public school + Classics at Oxbridge + Royal Navy national service + time spent in Russia + knighthood, I also asked him if he'd ever been approached to do espionage work, but he said he hadn't ... but I guess he would hardly have said yes if he had!
User:Lawrennd 29 July 2005
The article claims that quicksort was invented in 1960. Here it is claimed it was in 1961: http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/4/391 Who are right ?
The pronunciation of Hoare's name would make a nice addition to the article. 12.159.141.30 16:50, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
The pronunciation given in IPA (/hoʊɑːreɪ/) and in respelling (hoh-rah-ay) do not agree. If the IPA pronunciation is correct, the respelled pronunciation should be "hoh-ray". --ABehrens (talk) 19:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 05:53, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I placed some dubious tags around the note that says that the quote is due to Hoare. Although it is often attributed to Hoare, it is more often attributed to Knuth, and while there is evidence of Knuth having actually said it, there is none of Hoare having done so. I just spent the last hour or so trying to look it up; see [1]. Suggestions? shreevatsa (talk) 00:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
The following poem was in circulation amongst students of computer science in the UK in the mid 80s:
Charles Antony Richard Hoare All his books are such a bore The latest is the worst of his Communicating Sequential Processes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.57.150 (talk) 21:34, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
What does this mean: "He remained an extra year at Oxford studying graduate-level statistics, and following his National Service in the Royal Navy (1956–1958)."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.46.180 (talk) 19:58, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Yes, indeed: It would be interesting to have more-detailed information about his postgraduate studies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.135.222.16 (talk) 13:31, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
The citation for his birthday is a broken link (it redirects to the page for that section of the newspaper). Does someone have a proper link or another source? --2607:4000:200:13:F24D:A2FF:FE0C:A99E (talk) 01:19, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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We cannot cite Hoare's "apology" as-is in this article because that would indirectly imply that it is true, meaningful, and reasonable. However, that is not the case; it is simply not true that the null reference was introduced into software development or into computer science by Hoare. He exaggerated extremely when he made that claim.
Hoare claims that:
The problem with this claim is that (a) it says that Hoare not only introduced the null reference, but invented it, and that (b) it implies that basically the whole world had a look at ALGOL W and said "let's import this null concept from ALGOL W to everywhere else". However, both statements are not true, both historically and technically:
So, I can only speculate why Hoare had the deranged idea to have this talk where he says he personally is responsible for billions of dollars pain and damage. Be it as it may, I intend to remove this paragraph from the article. ʘχ (talk) 11:37, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
During undergradute studies, we were introduced to the inventor of QuickSort as C A R Hoare. Why is this page titled Tony Hoare? Is Tony is an alias? If yes, shouldn't the page be using his original name? HemaChandra88 (talk) 05:43, 25 November 2021 (UTC)