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Article #2146Re: A very brief history of optimal sorting methods
From: Tony Warnock
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 20:56
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 20:56
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Dan has called me a liar and a fool, he may be right about the
latter as I am taking time to reply to him. With respect to the
former, I shall only quote Dan's own words. If he says that his
points are being misunderstood, he should clarify them rather than
engaging in name calling. Here are a few of the exact quotes made
with respect to sorting, number of ways of aliasing arguments and
Fortran compilation.
"The number of the partition chosen takes at most a few bits to encode."
- Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
- Dan Bernstein
"Luckily, on the other side of the fence, we programmers still know that
sorting is linear."
- Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
- Dan Bernstein
"Fortran does not have separate compilation like C."
- Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
- Dan Bernstein
- Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
- Dan Bernstein
"I thank God for not making me a computer scientist."
- Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
- Dan Bernstein
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- William Blake
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!cmcl2!lanl!ttw From: ttw@lanl.gov (Tony Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: A very brief history of optimal sorting methods Message-ID: <6177@lanl.gov> Date: 16 Nov 90 20:56:50 GMT References: <5948@lanl.gov> <5293:Nov1518:36:0490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <12926:Nov1604:11:1490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M. Lines: 39