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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Good programmers and assembly language
Message-ID: <1523@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 7 Apr 91 04:31:36 GMT
References: <7214@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Organization: The Whole Yuggoth Society
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In article <7214@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> mr3@ukc.ac.uk (M.Rizzo) writes:
|In Miranda all you need is three lines:
|
|qsort :: [*] -> [*]
|qsort [] = []
|qsort (a:X) = qsort [b|b<-x; b<=a] ++ [a] ++ qsort [b|b<-x; b>a] 
|
	In email to Mr. Schwartz, I said that I was currently studying assembly,
but if doing so meant adopting his attitude I'd gladly switch to Fortran.
(He politely apologized for coming on too strong.)

	If learning a high-level language means putting up with gibberish like
THAT, I think I'll switch to raw hex instead.


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