Sir Tony Hoare, who has died aged 92, was a leading figure in computer software design best known for developing a leading algorithm for sorting lists – when he was 26.

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Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm ...

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Hoare is the man who developed quicksort at the age of 26. Quicksort is an algorithm that repeatedly selects one random piece of data from randomly arranged data, sorts the data by whether it is ...

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