On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 03:43 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:29:58 -0400, rbt wrote: > > >> It should not really come as a shock that the same fellow who came up with > >> a brilliant efficient way > >> to generate all permutations (http://tinyurl.com/dnazs) is also in favor > >> of goto. > >> > >> Coming next from rbt: "Pointer arithmetic in python ?". > >> > >> George > >> > >> > > > > I have moments of brilliance and moments of ignorance. You must admit > > though, that was a unique way of generating permutations... how many > > other people would have thought of that approach? It did solve my > > problem ;) > > Sorry rbt, but your algorithm isn't unique, nor was it clever, and in fact > your implementation wasn't very good even by the undemanding requirements > of the algorithm. It is just a minor modification of bogosort (also known > as "bozo-sort") algorithm: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort > > I quote: > > "...bogosort is 'the archetypal perversely awful algorithm', one example > of which is attempting to sort a deck of cards by repeatedly throwing the > deck in the air, picking the cards up at random, and then testing whether > the cards are in sorted order." > > Bogosort is nothing to be proud of, except as a joke.
It *was* a joke. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
