For other examples of Iverson's use of terms, see the anecdotes starting
from http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#ravel .  I'll add bubble
sort to the collection.


On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I can believe that Iverson invented the phrase "bubble sort".  Page 217 of *A
> Programming Language* (1962) says:
>
>    The result is to bubble each item upward in the sequence until it
> encounters an item
>    with a smaller (or equal) key and then to leave it and continue
> bubbling the new smaller item.
>    In particular the smallest item is bubbled to the top.
>
> It is consistent with his use of previously non-technical but descriptive,
> picturesque, and mnemonic terms in technical subjects.  "Floor" and
> "ceiling" from the same period are other examples which come to mind.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Kenneth Lettow <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Iverson uses the name ``bubble sort'' in 1962 [13
>> <https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/bubble/bubble.html#Iverson>]; this
>> appears
>> to be the first use of the term in print.
>>
>> https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/bubble/bubble.html
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