Fesshole 🧻I held a distinguished visiting chair at a college for eight years of very successful teaching. Never understood the voicemail, never once listened to my messages. The message light on the phone blinked for eight years.
abeorch@fesshole I heqrd that the guy that invented #quicksort was famous for never being seen using a computer and having his emails printed out for him.
Mark WhybirdMark Whybird (@[email protected])
(Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare) => null pointer exception. I am saddened to learn that Tony Hoare, the #Computing pioneer who invented what is now called Hoare Logic, the quicksort algorithm and a bunch of other things including the *null reference*, which he famously called his “billion dollar mistake”, died last month on 5 March 2026 aged 92. #computers #algorithms #programming #ComputerScience #RIP #CSP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
@fesshole @whybird He was on the #BBCRadio4 obiturary programme Last Words the other night as I drove back up to Huddersfield