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kenjackson on June 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Collection of classic computer science algorithms ...

Try asking 10 colleagues to right now write bubble sort on the white board. I bet at least half write some sorting algorithm that is not bubble sort. In contrast, if you ask these same 10 to do quicksort, you'll end up with 10 quicksort implementations.

mdwrigh2 on June 13, 2011 | [–]

You place a lot of confidence in your colleagues to claim that any arbitrary ten of them will come up with quicksort :)

jonsen on June 13, 2011 | [–]

I think it depends on the sort of 10 colleagues.

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