Emergency pubmeet, Thursday 17th

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "PC" == Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> writes:

  PC> On 12 May 2007, at 18:27, Greg McCarroll wrote:
  PC> [...]
  >> a bubble-sort pub crawl where you start with the order of the pubs
  >> in the street, and for your compare operation go into a pair and
  >> order even just a half pint of their recommended bitter in each and
  >> swap as appropriate is too scary to even contemplate for more than
  >> 4 pubs. i also expect the staff would be even more scared, doubly
  >> so if there was a timetable for different teams to sync their ops
  >> and different teams where sorting on different beverages.

  PC> Nah, bubble sort is a stable sort, and nobody will be stable after
  PC> that many comparisons.

but a bubble sort is perfect as you will be comparing bubbly beverages!

<inflicting more punishment>

uri

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