🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <902740555.28388.0.nnrp-04.c30b3753@news.demon.co.uk>
    Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net> writes:

> pla@sktb.demon.co.uk (Paul L. Allen) wrote:
> >Richard Clayton <richard@turnpike.com> writes:
> >
> >> You never use a BubbleSort for anything (he says, provocatively)
> >
> >Well, it's OK (and may even be the best choice) for *very* small data
> >sets but it scales very, very badly.  So badly, in fact, that for large
> >data sets you can give up hope of it ever finishing.
> 
> Good grief, it's only O(n^2). Hardly the travelling salesman problem.

I wonder if you noticed what I wrote after the paragraph you quoted.  I
wonder if you even considered the possibility that the paragraph you
quoted was only written in order to set the stage for the bit you
didn't bother to quote...

--Paul