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Subject: Re: Quick Sort in Rosetta Code
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 22:43:06 -0700
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On 02/09/2016 10:27 PM, gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> Couldn't not find how to reach the author of the Rosetta Code Quick Sort code
>   http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Quicksort#Ada
> ...but the code needs some improvement.
> 
> If you put 
>       Wed => 99.0, 
> in the demo instead of
>       Wed => 800.0, 
> you get
>    99.00  100.00  300.00  200.00  500.00  700.00  900.00

Not quite right. There's an implementation of Quick Sort in the PragmARCs, but
it would use insertion sort for something this short.

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