Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92
Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and to his friends as Tony, he was not only one of the greatest minds in the history of programming - he also came up with a number of the field's pithiest quotes....