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British computer scientist

Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, and winner of the 1980 Turing Award. He is best known for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages, and for the development of Quicksort, the world's most widely used sorting algorithm.

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Native Name: Charles Antony Richard Hoare
Also Known As: Tony
Alternative Names: C. A. R. Hoare • Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare • C.A.R. Hoare

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[About Algol 60] Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

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