Comment by swiftcoder
11 hours ago
Potentially its by either (or even both independently). Knuth originally attributed it to Hoare, but there's no paper trail to demonstrate Hoare actually coined it first
11 hours ago
Potentially its by either (or even both independently). Knuth originally attributed it to Hoare, but there's no paper trail to demonstrate Hoare actually coined it first
Turns out that premature attribution is actually the root of all evil...
Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).