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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to learn? [was Re: Should I learn C or
 Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/17
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Date: 1996-08-17T00:00:00+00:00
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What on earth is a "list qiucksort". As soon as you are not trying to do
things in place, why on earth would you use quicksort, when mergesort is
obviosuly as efficient and has a worst case performance of NlogN.