C.A.R. Hoare

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[Wikipedia] Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, known as Sir Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, was a British computer scientist who made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. His work earned him the 1980 ACM Turing Award, usu

Quotes by C.A.R. Hoare

“When any new language design project is nearing completion, there is always a mad rush to get new features added before standardization.…

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“I have been giving the best of my advice to this project since 1975. At first I was extremely hopeful. The original…

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Goals

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“There was no escape: The entire Elliott 503 Mark II software project had to be abandoned, and with it, over thirty man-years…

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Programming

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“I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there…

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First met

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“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers…

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Programming

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“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can…

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Application

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“The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.”

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Computer science

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“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit…

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Academia

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“But to me, each revision of the document simply showed how far the initial Flevel implementation had progressed. Those parts of the…

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