From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d04d2547435a643e X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.234.38 with SMTP id ub6mr12410171pbc.2.1339933047350; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 04:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni60878pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: True or False ? Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:37:23 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <17029032-5398-4754-8a85-116d595ce59c@googlegroups.com> <87haual1o2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <67e507a5-940f-4168-becb-0fd614709bea@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: KdJUrTuvv3Zv/s8pPxNluw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-06-17T06:37:23-05:00 List-Id: On 6/17/2012 5:35 AM, adacrypt wrote: > On Sunday, June 17, 2012 10:37:17 AM UTC+1, Ludovic Brenta wrote: >> Austin writes on comp.lang.ada: >>> Do you know if these sort programs are used in real world programming >>> today ? >> >> In our two-million-line mission-critical software we use heap sort and >> tree sort but not quick sort. >> >> -- >> Ludovic Brenta. > > Many thanks. > > I have never heard of heap save - is this to be found in academic books? I never heard of 'heap save' either. But Ludovic wrote above 'heap sort' not 'heap save' , at least this is how it shows up on my news reader (I do not use google groups). If you see it as heap save, then this might be a googles groups bug again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heapsort --Nasser