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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Teaching sorts [was Re: What's the best language to start with?]
Date: 1996/08/16
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Steve Heller said

">I agree that both radix sorts and address calculation sorts should be
>taught more systematically. The reason that attention tends to focus
>on comparison sorts is that these analyze most nicely from an academic
>point of view :-)
  They're more complex to analyze; is that what you mean?"

No, they are much simpler to analyze, analyzing the left to right
radix sort (the only reasonable implementation, the right to left sort
is never a good choice), or the address calculation sort, is not easy.