C. A. R. Hoare: Quotes about time

C. A. R. Hoare is British computer scientist. Explore interesting quotes on time.

C. A. R. Hoare: 32 quotes 2 likes

“Failures are much more fun to hear about afterwards; they are not so funny at the time.”

C. A. R. Hoare

The Emperor's Old Clothes

Failure , Time

“[About Algol 60] Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.”

C. A. R. Hoare

Hints on Programming Language Design http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/73/403/CS-TR-73-403.pdf, December 1973.

Time

“[About Pascal] That is the great strength of PASCAL, that there are so few unnecessary features and almost no need for subsets. That is why the language is strong enough to support specialized extensions--Concurrent PASCAL for real time work, PASCAL PLUS for discrete event simulation, UCSD PASCAL for microprocessor work stations.”

C. A. R. Hoare

The Emperor's Old Clothes

Support , Strong , Time