The terms floor and ceiling are quite descriptive. My wife was reading a recipe which was translated and it called ground beef, floor beef. Now she calls it floor beef.
On Aug 31, 2017 9:31 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
