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It's not the first time I'm seeing a q&a with Hoare. Every time someone asks "but how exactly did you figure out quicksort?". He must have heard that a hundred
by H8crilA 5y ago
It's not the first time I'm seeing a q&a with Hoare. Every time someone asks "but how exactly did you figure out quicksort?". He must have heard that a hundred times by now. He should come up with a fake but catchy story, like the Newton gravity apple :)
- cbsmith 5y agoHonestly, quicksort seems like a really intuitive way to do sorting, so much so that when I was in school I had to keep remembering that merge sort was the "trickier" way (to me).