What (who) is Anthony Hoare - definition

BRITISH COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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Anthony Hoare

<person> (C. Anthony R. Hoare, Tony) A computer scientist working on programming languages, especially parallel ones. Hoare was responsible for Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP). See also: pointer, Simone. [Did he invent the Hoare powerdomain? Other details?] (1999-07-22)

Tony Hoare

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Hoare logic

FORMAL SYSTEM WITH A SET OF LOGICAL RULES FOR REASONING RIGOROUSLY ABOUT THE CORRECTNESS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS

Hoare triple; Hoare calculus; Floyd-Hoare logic; Hoare rules; Floyd–Hoare logic; Midcondition

Hoare logic (also known as Floyd–Hoare logic or Hoare rules) is a formal system with a set of logical rules for reasoning rigorously about the correctness of computer programs. It was proposed in 1969 by the British computer scientist and logician Tony Hoare, and subsequently refined by Hoare and other researchers.

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Tony Hoare

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare) (born 11 January 1934) is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing. His work earned him the Turing Award, usually regarded as the highest distinction in computer science, in 1980.

Hoare developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959–1960. He developed Hoare logic, an axiomatic basis for verifying program correctness. In the semantics of concurrency, he introduced the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes, and along with Edsger Dijkstra, formulated the dining philosophers problem. He is also credited with development (and later criticism) of the null pointer, having introduced it in the ALGOL family of languages. Since 1977, he has held positions at the University of Oxford and Microsoft Research in Cambridge.

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