Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Tim Roberts]

"Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
>
>Indeed, the point of teaching bubblesort is to teach *not to use*
>bubblesort.

I would have said "...to teach WHEN not to use bubblesort."  There have
been many times I needed to sort a list in some throaway utility when I
knew the list was going to be limited in size.  I KNOW I can write a
bubblesort or insertion sort and get it right.  I'd have to look up and
debug a quicksort or a heapsort.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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