There is something quietly remarkable about the people who built the foundations of modern computing. Not their technical achievements, though those are extraordinary. What is remarkable is where they came from before they ever touched a machine. Tony Hoare, who inspired the writing of this essay, studied Classics and Philosophy at Oxford: Latin, Greek, and modern philosophy under the "Greats" program at Merton College. As a schoolboy, he read George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell and harb...
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