A Tribute to C.A.R. Hoare
(Image source: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/2008-09/tony-hoare/images/hoare%20main.jpg ) In case you like code more than prose about the code, here is the code. That is vibed. Quality is average, bordering on bad. I spent some time, in between other tasks, and made what is I might claim, elegant, human optimised code. ( https://godbolt.org/z/9M8oj34TT ) Those improvements need never stop, of course. The Foundation Everyone Forgot — Almost Before Simula 67. Before Smalltalk. Before anyone had coined the term object-oriented programming. Tony Hoare formalized the concept of the discriminated union in his seminal 1965 paper, “Record Handling.” ...