On Sunday 26 April 2009 17:31:59 Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Go back to school, and as punishment re-implement quick_sort in VB.NET. > > Now that's going the "cruel and unusual" route. > > I do think every programmer should take the time to implement binary > search and quick sort at least once from scratch. The number of corner > cases there is outstanding, and it is a great practice of thinking of > the fine details.
Beeing a little serious: I am not sure quick_sort is a must, as quite frankly it's a reall mess and I don't understand it. But heap sort and binary sort, yes. Those are a must. /me will need to back to the books and remember how heap sort works _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
