Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.
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Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...
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What’s the Deal With Algorithms?

Can I level with you? I’m not always sure I know what people are talking about when they say algorithm? You’re not alone: Honestly, I haven’t always been sure what I meant when I said it either. But ...