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Tony Hoare

British computer scientist and Turing Award laureate, known for proposing Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) theory and the Quicksort algorithm. His work has had a profound and lasting influence on the theory of concurrent programming.

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Sep 30

Tony Hoare passed away this March.

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Sep 30

Tony Hoare was born on January 11, 1934, in what is today Sri Lanka, and entered Merton College, Oxford in 1952.

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Sep 30

During his time at Elliott Brothers, Tony Hoare persuaded the company to adopt ALGOL 60 rather than a proprietary language.

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Sep 30

Tony Hoare invented the Quicksort and QuickSelect algorithms.

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Sep 30

Tony Hoare received the Turing Award and was knighted for his contributions to education and computer science.

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Sep 30

Tony Hoare introduced the null reference in 1965.

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Sep 30

In his 2009 QCon talk, Tony Hoare called the null reference his "billion-dollar mistake," estimating it had caused approximately one billion dollars in losses over the past 40 years.

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Sep 30

The null reference was introduced while designing the reference type system for the object-oriented language ALGOL W.

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Aug 28

Tony Hoare是1980年图灵奖获得者、快速排序算法的发明者、CSP并发模型的提出者以及霍尔逻辑的创建者

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Aug 23

Go's concurrency model is based on CSP theory, proposed by Tony Hoare in 1978, with the core idea of coordinating concurrent processes through message passing rather than shared memory.

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