Jill, Lady Hoare (born 15 October 1933) is a British computer scientist and one of the primary developers on the initial compiler for the

ALGOL 60 ALGOL 60 (short for ''Algorithmic Language 1960'') is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which had introduced code blocks and the begin and end pairs for delimiting them, representing a ...

language, developed for Elliott Brothers in 1963.

Early life and family

Hoare was born Jill Pym on 15 October 1933. She is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Pym and Diana Gough. She married Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare on 13 January 1962. The couple had three children.

Career

Pym was one of the primary developers on the initial compiler for the

language, developed for Elliott Brothers in 1963. She worked at Stanford University in 1973. After working on ALGOL, Hoare worked on hospital computer systems for the British National Health Service (

NHS The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...

) Oxfordshire. She was interviewed on her career and experiences of coding and programming, work at Stanford University in 1973 and working on hospital systems for NHS Oxfordshire by the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History programme in 2020.

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