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From: heller@utdallas.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Re: Teaching sorts [was Re: What's the best language to start with?]
Date: 1996/08/20
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dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>The distribution counting sort is quite different from a right to left
>radix sort (the latter being the sort you do on a sorting machine for
>80 column cards, if people still remember!) My comment was on the latter,
>so Steve's comment on the former is quite right, but they are two
>different algorithms.
  I suspected we were talking at cross purposes. Thanks for verifying
that and  clearing up the confusion.

Steve Heller, author and software engineer
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