Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists The concepts could be baffling; one manager said: ‘I don’t care if the program talks to itself, as ...

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Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm ...