From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book
Date: 1996/11/29
Date: 1996-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.849319148@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 57i6n8$kvd@felix.seas.gwu.edu
Mike says
"But why on earth did that programmer use bubble sort in a compiler?:-)"
Perhaps it was the most appropriate algorithm. I often find that students
go to the opposite extreme, they insist on using bazookas to execute
cockroaches in their code. In fact there are many instances where a simple
bubble sort is qiute appropriate if you never expect very large sets of
data to sort, and you think they will in general be pretty much in order
(an example would be the component clauses in a record rep clause, if part
of your processing involved sorting them into order).
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-18 0:00 Looking for a good Ada 95 book Ray Toal
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Suzanne B. Zampella
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Jim Carr
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Teaching Team/Maintenance Programming (was: Looking for a good book) Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Looking for a good Ada 95 book Laurent Gasser
1996-12-02 0:00 ` John English
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Debora Weber-Wulff
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-23 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-11-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-24 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-11-24 0:00 ` S. McLain
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Darel Cullen
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Darel Cullen
1996-11-26 0:00 ` S. McLain
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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