Re: So Who is Credited with Inventing “Count Sort” as we know it Today - Anybody?

[Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>]

On Monday, June 25, 2012 5:06:19 AM UTC+1, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:08:50 -0700 (PDT), Austin Obyrne
> <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
> 
> > It is not desperately important but I would like to be able to say that my implementation is the first in Ada and is completely independent of the algorithm in 1954 by H. Seaward (hope I've got the name right).
> >
> 	You need to take into account that "algorithm" basically means
> "recipe".
> 
> 	You are trying to emphasize that you baked (implementation) a loaf
> of bread using an electrically heated steel-wall oven using a recipe
> (algorithm) that was first baked (different implementation) using a
> wood-fired stone/clay walled oven. At best, you can claim that your
> "sour-dough starter" is different from the starter used by the bakery
> down the street -- but they both produce "sour-dough" loaves.
> 
> 	Implementing a known algorithm/recipe in a particular programming
> language doesn't earn any special credit. You would need to demonstrate
> that the language-independent algorithm itself is different to really
> gain credit.
> -- 
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Yes - you are quite right.

Austin.