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.)
EdNutting 23 days ago [-]
This post appears to have been hidden from the front page of HN?
It was edited again a few minutes ago and now displays Sunday, March 8th as his date of death.
codethief 23 days ago [-]
And it's gone again!
hinkley 23 days ago [-]
His Wikipedia page is still worded in the present tense. People tend to be johnny on the spot about that so maybe not?
csb6 24 days ago [-]
The blog author says that Jonathan Bowen informed them, so it is possible it hasn't been officially announced.
spooneybarger 23 days ago [-]
Yes. He died last week.
rvz 23 days ago [-]
RIP Tony Hoare.
Legendary Turing Award Winner.
behehebd 23 days ago [-]
Any link to information?
spooneybarger 23 days ago [-]
Came through personal contact who is close to the family.
pyuser583 23 days ago [-]
Wikipedia 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.
reenorap 23 days ago [-]
Once verified, I definitely think the creator of Quicksort deserves a black bar.
hinkley 23 days ago [-]
Tony 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.
jacquesm 23 days ago [-]
It goes a lot further than Quicksort.
jonstewart 23 days ago [-]
Yes, make it black.
penguin_booze 23 days ago [-]
I found this link elsewhere. But then I went to his wikipedia page; it doesn't seem to have any mention of date of demise.
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.)
According to this blogpost, he sadly passed away last Thursday, March 5th.
Legendary Turing Award Winner.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare