Does it become ceiling beef if you leave it out for a few days?
M
On 31/08/2017 17:30, Don Guinn wrote:
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
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