Tony Hoare: his path to the ACM Turing Award

In 1980 Tony Hoare received the ACM Turing Award “for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages”. This article examines the achievements that led to this award.

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Formal Aspects of Computing
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2026-05-18
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3816707
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History of Computing Technologies
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Tony Hoare: his path to the ACM Turing Award

Krzysztof Apt
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Tony Hoare: his path to the ACM Turing Award

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In 1980 Tony Hoare received the ACM Turing Award “for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages”. This article examines the achievements that led to this award.

Formal Aspects of Computing
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (NL), University of Warsaw (PL)
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