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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (462512)3/10/2009 12:53:06 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1574855
 
Maybe. But my prof. at Sam Houston in software engineering was totally convinced that writing sorts in COBOL was the future. I argued with him in class. I flunked the class.

Well, sorts are an interesting bit of the history of algorithms and there was a period during which I was fascinated with them. And most people who studied COBOL or FORTRAN had to write one or two of them somewhere along the line -- a bubble sort as an assignment if nothing else.

I'm sure some people use sorts today, but in the kind of work I do you would never explicitly call one. They're long gone I guess.
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