From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/08 Message-ID: <1999Feb8.094418.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441872162 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <77ledn$eu7$1@remarQ.com> <77pnqc$cgi$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <8p64spq5lo5.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> <77t3ld$nou$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79ce4s$lfq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79chc7$ko6@drn.newsguy.com> <79dodb$rhf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79fm3e$ffs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79fnce$iv8@drn.newsguy.c <36beecef.70d8ed5e@pwfl.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 918485064 5444 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: Digital Equipment Computer User's Society Followup-To: <36beecef.70d8ed5e@pwfl.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Organization: LJK Software Lines: 11 In article <36BEECEF.70D8ED5E@pwfl.com>, Marin David Condic writes: > What would be wrong with specifying a couple of "standard" generic sort > routines that provided some of the most common algorithms? There are > only so many versions of a Quicksort or Heapsort that anyone needs and > having a "standard" version would a) eliminate duplication of effort and > b) establish a "model" interface for any other sorting algorithms. How about a single sort interface with one parameter being the algorithm ? Larry Kilgallen