Tony Hoare
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Oct 7, 2026
Eugene H. SpaffordGUEST
The problem of memory safety isn't new.
Eugene H. SpaffordGUEST
We've known about it since the 1970s at least, and Tony Hoare in his Turing speech back in 1980 pointed out that at the time he was working with Elgol, How many of you have heard of ALGOL students? One of the first really important programming languages that was developed by an international standards committee that his customers for his ALGOL compiler, his company's ALGOL compiler, they offered them the choice of turning off the memory protection features and they all nearly unanimously said no because they realized how important it was.
Eugene H. SpaffordGUEST
This was public knowledge.
Eugene H. SpaffordGUEST
We were teaching this in the 1980s.