“There was no escape: The entire Elliott 503 Mark II software project had to be abandoned, and with it, over thirty man-years of programming effort, equivalent to nearly one man’s active working life, and I was responsible, both as designer… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“When any new language design project is nearing completion, there is always a mad rush to get new features added before standardization. The rush… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I have been giving the best of my advice to this project since 1975. At first I was extremely hopeful. The original objectives of… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“There was no escape: The entire Elliott 503 Mark II software project had to be abandoned, and with it, over thirty man-years of programming… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.” — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“But to me, each revision of the document simply showed how far the initial Flevel implementation had progressed. Those parts of the language that… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
