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From: ttw@lanl.gov (Tony Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: A very brief history of optimal sorting methods
Message-ID: <6177@lanl.gov>
Date: 16 Nov 90 20:56:50 GMT
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    Dan has called me a liar and a fool, he may be right about the
    latter as I am taking time to reply to him. With respect to the
    former, I shall only quote Dan's own words. If he says that his
    points are being misunderstood, he should clarify them rather than
    engaging in name calling. Here are a few of the exact quotes made
    with respect to sorting, number of ways of aliasing arguments and
    Fortran compilation.
 
"The number of the partition chosen takes at most a few bits to encode."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
 
 
"Luckily, on the other side of the fence, we programmers still know that
sorting is linear."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
 
 
"Fortran does not have separate compilation like C."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
 
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
 
"I thank God for not making me a computer scientist."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein
"Please don't say anything if you don't know what you're talking about."
                                                        - Dan Bernstein

     If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
                                                     - William Blake