Sir Tony Hoare

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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, FRS FREng

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Birthplace: Colombo, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
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Son of Henry Samuel Malortie Hoare and Marjorie Francis Villiers
Brother of Dr. Arthur Malortie Hoare; Henry Ronald John Hoare; Dorothy Ann Katherine Hoare and Janet Frances Mary Villiers

Managed by: Tommaso Valarani
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About Sir 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 processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes (including the dining philosophers problem) and the inspiration for the occam programming language.

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1934
January 11, 1934
Colombo, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka