I have regarded it as the highest goal of programming langu… - Tony Hoare

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I have regarded it as the highest goal of programming language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.

Tony Hoare

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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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I have regarded it as the highest goal of programming language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed. - Tony Hoare

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