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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f6aa,e1e578817780dac2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6aa,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal? Date: 1996/08/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174572622 sender: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu references: <4u7hi6$s2b@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> <4uo74j$95p@ns.broadvision.com> organization: UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos.programmer Date: 1996-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Resume: Spend some time on checking your data first, then decide on the > proper sorting algorithm! And that's the whole point. If a student learns "quicksort is fastest" they won't ever think about the issues involved. I ran across one program where an item was added to a sort list by adding it the end and then calling qsort(). Yes, very abstract with code re-use, but it ignored efficiency altogether (it appeared though that this was written quickly to get things working, and the author never came back later to improve it). -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu O- My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance - Babylon 5