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From: Matt Austern <austern@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/02/09
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"Fredric L. Rice" <frice@linkline.com> writes:

> > But a standard sort package would only specify the interface, and
> > would leave the implementation up to the vendor. isn;t this how
> > things are supposed to be?
> 
> That's how it's done in the C++ world.  qsort() is the function that is
> normally called when a sort is desired and one must provide the guts
> of the function.

Well, more precisely qsort() is the sorting function that's normally
called in the C world.  In the C++ world, the usual sorting function
is sort(). Although qsort() isn't officially deprecated in C++ (the
C++ standard library includes the C standard library), it might as
well be.  

I can't think of any occasion where it would be better to use qsort()
than sort().  The generic sort() algorithm is easier to use, more
flexible, safer, and more efficient.