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

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From: Howard Brazee
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:00

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Jay Siegel 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.
> 
> Jay

True.  But I am guessing about why a COBOL program needs to code a sort
at all.  I suspect it is for a very small amount of data, maybe to order
some data on a screen.  In that case, who cares which sort is faster. 
Just code which is easier (to maintain and avoid bugs).

Otherwise use a sort utility (external sort, COBOL sort, or SQL ordered
input).

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