Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Brian wrote:
> 
> Does teaching bubblesort algorthims help when most high level languages have
> highly efficent sorting routines available?

The point of teaching bubblesort isn't so that you know
how to write a bubblesort. Studying it, together with other
sorting algorithms such as minselect and quicksort, teaches
you how to analyse algorithms and compare the performance
of different algorithms for solving the same problem.

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