Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
I have several imperative language programming books and instead of
qsort they introduce the reader to the wonderful world of bubble sort!
Bubble sort should be part of an introductory programming course, if
only because:
1. it's an algorithm that gets reinvented if one is not aware of it
2. one needs to be able to recognize it, as one will encounter it a lot
in production code
3. it's a great way to introduce concepts like big O
4. it's a great stepping stone to introducing better sorts
I've run into bubble sort reimplementations in production code written
by famous programmers who should know better. It happens all the time.
Fro your arguments 1-4 and your conclusion, I infer you made a slight
typo. Let me fix that for you.
s/should be/should not be/
Andrei
