Re: help Looking for some code to do a Bubble sort in Cobol/Fortran

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From: Jeff York
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:00

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"Jay Siegel" <ka2csh@nospam.nowhere> wrote:

>"space" == "spacesspaces" writes:
>
>space> help       Looking for some code to do a "Bubble" sort in
>space> Cobol/Fortran
>space> 
>space> 
>space> have a need to sort some internal tables, multikey.
>space> 
>space> 
>space> thanks in advance
>space> ed
>space> .
>
>    Bubble sort?  I'd recommend at least a Shell sort algorythm,
>    while the Fast sort algorythm is even faster.  The Bubble sort
>    algorythm is one of the slowest algorythms for sorting.
>
Except,  of course,  in the case where the data is already in
sequence..    I've seen sorts in the past where the first pass is a
bubble,  just to cope with that possibility..    :-)

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