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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f6c360ce344b2364 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Received: by 10.68.238.65 with SMTP id vi1mr22645945pbc.7.1340198023006; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni72437pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Manuel Collado Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: My Invention of "Bug Sort". Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:13:47 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <3852c348-a728-44ed-b065-c8a596c1e235@googlegroups.com> <698085ff-6ca3-4a0e-b963-11bdcf11e6b5@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nhcAheode0bihPZaNcUxIQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-06-20T15:13:47+02:00 List-Id: El 20/06/2012 14:51, Manuel Collado escribi�: > El 20/06/2012 14:47, Manuel Collado escribi�: >> El 20/06/2012 12:57, Austin Obyrne escribi�: >>> ... >>> Re Your suggestion: "Bug" in engineering is a euphemism for >>> "error"; >>> >>> I agree this needs to be changed. >>> >>> I originally thought of "Tag Sort" but this clashes with 'tag' in Ada >>> terminology. >>> >>> I'm considering "Cell Sort" (<= elements of an array),"Trap Sort" (<= >>> data is systematically trapped), "Abstraction Sort" (<= data is >>> abstracted from the stream of data being assigned to the variable >>> during runtime of the host program. >>> >>> Would any of these clash with other sort program tiles known to you? >>> >>> Your suggestion on one of these names would be greatly appreciated. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort >> > > More precisely: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_sort Ooops!. Should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_sort The original algorithm dates back to 1954. See ref. 8. -- Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado