Talk:Tony Hoare

message: The article is not clear on whether the subject is KBE, MBE, CBE, &c. as per Order of the British Empire, which I think is an important detail to add.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.251.27.222 (talk) 04:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knighthood 

message: The article said:
:"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." (This quote has also been attributed to Donald E. Knuth and Robert Floyd.)
The quotation has been attributed to Knuth because it was written by Knuth.  It appears in his article Structured Programming with GO TO Statements that appeared in ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1974, p. 268.  A more complete version is:
:       There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to    abuse.  Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking       about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of        their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have        a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are        considered.  We should forget about small efficiencies, say       about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of        all evil.
-- Dominus 14:27, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: (But I also knew, and forgot, Hoare's dictum that premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.)
-- Dominus 02:03, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misattributed Quotation 

message: The article claims:
:[He] is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort, the world's most widely used sorting algorithm, and perhaps even the world's most widely used algorithm of any kind, in 1960.
On what grounds is it "the world's most widely used algorithm of any kind"? Is it really more commonly used than, say,  matrix multiplication, or floating point addition, etc? Neilc 05:04, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently there was a crack in this person's screen, such that the end of the quotation was not visible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.108.225.155 (talk) 02:17, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be actually surprised if quicksort was the most-widely used sorting algorithm.  In some cases it might be the best choice but there are other sorting algorithms (merge sort, heap sort) which in many aspects outscore quicksort.  Python and Java seem to rely on timsort (a mergesort variant) as their standard sorting algorithm, as mentioned [here].  Anyway, if this sentence is to stand (I guess I've criticised it enough), it should be backed up with some sources.  Alfe (talk) 16:18, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most commonly-used algorithm? 

message: The pronunciation of Hoare's name would make a nice addition to the article. 12.159.141.30 16:50, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, yea. I always have been saying Car Whore in my mind128.61.171.50 (talk) 15:09, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of name 

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Hello, I placed some dubious tags around the note that says that the quote is due to Hoare. Although it is often attributed to Hoare, it is more often attributed to Knuth, and while there is evidence of Knuth having actually said it, there is none of Hoare having done so. I just spent the last hour or so trying to look it up; see . Suggestions? shreevatsa (talk) 00:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Talk:C._A._R._Hoare#Misattributed_Quotation - Francis Tyers · 17:01, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I read the link. Sounds like it would make an interesting article in itself, Premature optimisation is the root of all evil perhaps? - Francis Tyers · 17:03, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Root of all evil" quote 

message: The following poem was in circulation amongst students of computer science in the UK in the mid 80s:
 Charles Antony Richard Hoare
 All his books are such a bore
 The latest is the worst of his
 Communicating Sequential Processes  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.32.57.150 (talk) 21:34, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Humorous poem 

message: What does this mean: "He remained an extra year at Oxford studying graduate-level statistics, and following his National Service in the Royal Navy (1956–1958)."?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.46.180 (talk) 19:58, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography 

message: The citation for his birthday is a broken link (it redirects to the page for that section of the newspaper). Does someone have a proper link or another source? --2607:4000:200:13:F24D:A2FF:FE0C:A99E (talk) 01:19, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthdate citation 

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message: During undergradute studies, we were introduced to the inventor of QuickSort as C A R Hoare. Why is this page titled Tony Hoare? Is Tony is an alias? If yes, shouldn't the page be using his original name? HemaChandra88 (talk) 05:43, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as the page is consistent about using Tony, I think we are good. His website uses Tony and I have personally heard Tony more often than C. A. R. I did add the name CAR to first sentence in response to your note in case that helps. Caleb Stanford (talk) 16:44, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: And in keeping with British tradition, he is regularly known as "Sir Tony". Mdmi (talk) 01:32, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  C A R Hoare or Tony Hoare