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Is this machine-generated text? That or it's badly translated. Either way, it's strangely incoherent and subtly flawed. Take just the first section. It talks a
by MauranKilom 7y ago
Is this machine-generated text? That or it's badly translated. Either way, it's strangely incoherent and subtly flawed.
Take just the first section. It talks about a bubble sort of ints. Then provides code for bubble sorting strings [1]. Then talks about "sign position in the ASCII table". "linking to the native sort function" is... not the right term (what happened to "call"?). And then we suddenly talk about "the element to be found" (weren't we just sorting?). The rest of the article is in the same vein.
I hope I'm not coming across as just picking on someone's English skills - even with perfect English I would find it hard to follow the train of thought.
[1] This is subtly different because (naive) string comparison is not constant-time, unlike comparing ints in most languages. I was half expecting the article to go there but it didn't.
PS: If not for the discussion here, I would've skipped the read because the site has no HTTPS. Please get a cert, it's free: https://letsencrypt.org/ https://letsencrypt.org/
- idbfs 7y agoI was wondering the same thing. It's either a horrible human-written article, or an impressive machine-written one.
- gigatexal 7y agoIt could be a non-native speaker of English trying his or her best.
- claes-magnus 7y ago@Mauran Kilom. Thank you for your criticism, especially your mention of https://letsencrypt.org/ https://letsencrypt.org/. I will look into that! And I am also very grateful that your pointed out the obvious: the red thread was missing, and I have tried to fix this by erasing large parts of the text. My english is however as it is, much to improve! :) Thank your the time!