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Tony Hoare has died
- pyuser583 7mo agoWikipedia is reporting him as deceased, but there’s a bit of an editing war going on. No source is cited for his death, and and it’s going back and forth.
- arn3n 7mo agoPardon if I’m dumb/missed something: Is Tony Hoare dead? I see no news anywhere.
- csb6 7mo agoThe blog author says that Jonathan Bowen informed them, so it is possible it hasn't been officially announced.
- Jtsummers 7mo agoI can't find any news either, but that is the claim of this submission. > Jonathan Bowen informed me of Tony Hoare's death on Thursday, March 5th. (translated from French) The main reason to find it surprising is that it's now 4 days since then, I'd have expected something to have been published besides this page.
- tibbar 7mo agoThat is the claim of the post. I also don't see confirmation elsewhere
- nextos 7mo agoThere is very little information around, this is the most authoritative post I could find. There are some comments on X as well. According to this blogpost, he sadly passed away last Thursday, March 5th.
- jlhawn 7mo agoThere were a few recent edits about this on Tony Hoar's Wikipedia page which were reverted because there was no substantial evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hoare&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hoare&action...
- spooneybarger 7mo agoYes. He died last week.
- rvz 7mo agoRIP Tony Hoare. Legendary Turing Award Winner.
- behehebd 7mo agoAny link to information?
- spooneybarger 7mo agoCame through personal contact who is close to the family.
- hinkley 7mo agoHis Wikipedia page is still worded in the present tense. People tend to be johnny on the spot about that so maybe not?
- intuitionist 7mo agoSadly it seems to be true. Heard it late last week from a coworker in a position to know.
- butterisgood 7mo agoWikipedia seems to say he passed yesterday.
- reenorap 7mo agoOnce verified, I definitely think the creator of Quicksort deserves a black bar.
- hinkley 7mo agoTony Hoare documented almost every form of concurrency primitive that we have in modern software. Pretty much everything prior to Rust's ownership semantics was written down in some form or under another name by Tony in the early 1970's.
- jonstewart 7mo agoYes, make it black.
- jacquesm 7mo agoIt goes a lot further than Quicksort.
- bitwize 7mo agoTime for a black band.
- hinkley 7mo ago@dang is there such a thing as a double black bar? Because we need one for Tony.
- toomuchtodo 7mo agoTags do nothing, email the mods if desired. Bottom bar has deets (“contact”).
- godd2 7mo agoWhat is a black bar?
- john_strinlai 7mo agowhen a significant figure in the tech/science community dies, hn will sometimes place a thin black bar at the top of the page in memoriam
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- BitsAndObjects 7mo agoThis post appears to have been hidden from the front page of HN?
- dang 7mo agoYes, it was submitted before the news had been confirmed. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327440.
- zombot 7mo agoNo black band at the op of HN? Is that only for rich people?
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- dang 7mo agoI hope you've noticed which story has been at the top of HN all day today, and how lovely the comments in it are.
- penguin_booze 7mo agoI found this link elsewhere. But then I went to his wikipedia page; it doesn't seem to have any mention of date of demise. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
- dang 7mo agoI've merged the comments into this thread now: Tony Hoare has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054. Normally we'd try to re-up the earliest submission of a story, but in this case the article had little information, while the other post is nicely personal and detailed. I've left below the comments which were (understandably) debating whether the news was true or not. (Just to be clear: this is not a criticism! It's an important story, nextos is a fine contributor, and the submission was entirely understandable.)
- pyuser583 7mo agoEven now his Oxford bio lists him as alive, by his Royal Society bio lists him as deceased.