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From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman)
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/08/06
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 comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Date: 1996-08-06T00:00:00+00:00
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StHeller (stheller@aol.com) wrote:
: In article <4ttmpi$l3k@ns.broadvision.com>, patrick@broadvision.com
: (Patrick Horgan) writes:

: >If you show up on a job interview I should be able to say, "write me a
: quick
: >binary sort algorithm" and you have no problem doing it because you know
: how
: >it works...you don't have to memorise it, you create if from well
: understood
: >basic principles as needed.
:   I assume you mean a "binary search". If you want a fast sort that's easy
: to program, then distribution counting fills the bill quite nicely; I've
: used it as
: a programming test with great success.

: Steve Heller
: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/steve_heller/

--
***********begin r.s. response***************

	re.
	"...binary sort algorithm..."

	i remember such from the
		military programming of the 1980's
	...

	has this reached the textbooks now?

	also,
	seems pretty hard for a
		technical interview question
	!!!

***********end r.s. response*****************
Ralph Silverman
z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us