sort functions in python

Hrvoje Niksic hniksic at xemacs.org
Sun Feb 10 04:33:53 EST 2008


Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:

>> I've never seen anything better than bubble sort being called
>> bubble sort.
>
> What, you didn't read the post you're replying to?

I responded to a specific point about combsort being called bubble
sort.  I agree that generally the line between "bubblesort variants"
and "algorithms based on bubblesort" is blurry and drawn by convention
rather than any strict criterion.



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