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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,e1e578817780dac2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: patrick@broadvision.com (Patrick Horgan) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/08/12 Message-ID: <4uo74j$95p@ns.broadvision.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173885584 references: <4u7hi6$s2b@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> organization: The quite unorganized Patrick reply-to: patrick@broadvision.com newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos.programmer Date: 1996-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4u7hi6$s2b@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>, z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) writes: > > 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 A binary sort, also known as quicksort, or Hoare's sort is covered extensively in Knuth's volume three (from 1971) and in every undergraduate data structure and algorithm course in the world;)...you would expect anyone with a CS degree to be familiar with it. -- Patrick J. Horgan patrick@broadvision.com Have horse will ride. Opinions mine, not my employer's except by most bizarre coincidence.