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Old 08-14-2015, 01:02 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Sorting is nontrivial to programmers:
No. Sorting is non-trivial to computer science students. Once you pass the basic algorithms course, about all you do is call qsort (or equivalent function in your employer's language of choice) when you need a program to sort something. Or call the sort function in your editor, use "ls -rt" if you want a list of files sorted by date, &c.

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