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		jlhawn 46 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tony Hoare has died There were a few recent edits about this on Tony Hoar's Wikipedia page which were reverted because there was no substantial evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Hoare&action...

nextos 46 days ago | [–]

It was edited again a few minutes ago and now displays Sunday, March 8th as his date of death.

codethief 46 days ago | [–]

And it's gone again!

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