Mark Whybird(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
