From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: So Who is Credited with Inventing “Count Sort” as we know it Today - Anybody?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:36:17 +0100
Date: 2012-06-25T10:36:17+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k3yvzqb2.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qfofu7ppcifdrqeigsavumrr63vud6783q@invalid.netcom.com
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Implementing a known algorithm/recipe in a particular programming
> language doesn't earn any special credit. You would need to demonstrate
> that the language-independent algorithm itself is different to really
> gain credit.
I don't know: Austin did invent it, he just wasn't the first.
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2012-06-24 13:26 So Who is Credited with Inventing “Count Sort” as we know it Today - Anybody? Austin Obyrne
2012-06-24 13:57 ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-24 14:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-24 17:08 ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-24 17:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
[not found] ` <qfofu7ppcifdrqeigsavumrr63vud6783q@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-06-25 7:00 ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-25 9:36 ` Simon Wright [this message]
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