. . . a bubble sort seemed to be correct for this.

I have nothing constructive to offer, I just wanted to thank you for the best laugh I've had today.

Update: It's been brought to my attention that my remark may need some explanation. Basically, nobody with any formal computer science training would ever just use a bubble sort for generic sorting. BS is O(n^2) (CS talk that it performs on the order of the square of the number of elements to be sorted) with a terrible average performance. Perl's builtin sort uses quicksort which is O(n log n) for instance. There are cases where a bubble sort can work (e.g. you know your initial ordering is almost sorted), but for the most part you want to steer clear of it.

For more information, see a text such as Volume Three of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming or Mastering Algorithms with Perl (ISBN 1565923987).

In reply to Re: Funky sorting by Fletch
in thread Funky sorting by Anonymous Monk

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