Tony Hoare
Tony Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng, commonly known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist. He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language communicating sequential processesto specify the interactions of concurrent processesand the inspiration for the occam programming language...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 January 1934
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