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From: bokr@accessone.com (Bengt Richter)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/22
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"Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com> wrote:
[...]
>Wait, hold the phone!  "Sorts the data without moving it"?  What,
>is APL's sorting algorithm O(1)?  Yes, it may not actually get
>sorted until it gets printed, but that's irrelevent to the fact
>that it eventually gets sorted.
	Does that mean that your concept of the essential aspect of
sorting is putting the data into sort order, rather than establishing
the order itself? The respective timings say otherwise to me ;-)
[...]

Regards,
Bengt Richter