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by gdaustin

7/11/03 2:13:16 PM

You're looking for "best algorithm"

I was looking for compact code, quick implementation.

Sadly, a lot of the work I have to do is done in a hurry, so the customer doesn't care if it's a bubble sort or quick/merge/insert sort unless the data set is really large.

Also, I work with databases a lot, so when someone wants it sorted, I ORDER BY on the SQL and it's done.

DB2 SQL is my best language. Java is probably next.

I haven't looked for the "best algorithm" since I worked at SABRE, where we had lots of time (usually at least 2 quarters) to implement something.

Glen Austin

Another "removeSpaces" from a job candidate - (Arkadiy) - (59) - July 10, 2003, 04:27:13 PM EDT

Bleurrrgh. -NT - (admin) - July 10, 2003, 04:37:24 PM EDT

You have a *great* need for a coder! :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - July 10, 2003, 05:00:52 PM EDT

LPRD sez: Able to chew and walk gum at the same time. :) -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 10, 2003, 05:45:42 PM EDT

Help me - (broomberg) - (30) - July 10, 2003, 05:54:48 PM EDT

You pass. - (Arkadiy) - (29) - July 10, 2003, 06:32:09 PM EDT

Depends. - (admin) - (15) - July 10, 2003, 06:40:06 PM EDT

Agreed. - (Yendor) - (9) - July 10, 2003, 06:46:39 PM EDT

Not buying it... - (gdaustin) - (8) - July 11, 2003, 12:37:46 AM EDT

And I'm not buying yours... - (Yendor) - (7) - July 11, 2003, 12:59:35 AM EDT

I'm saying that a Computer Science or MIS Grad Student - (gdaustin) - (6) - July 11, 2003, 08:28:00 AM EDT

This is not a friggin' function! - (Arkadiy) - (5) - July 11, 2003, 08:45:08 AM EDT

Yep, the guy doesn't understand null terminated strings. - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - July 13, 2003, 02:14:06 PM EDT

Is that like - (Ashton) - (3) - July 13, 2003, 08:51:38 PM EDT

Nope, that's null-terminated chain. -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 13, 2003, 08:54:16 PM EDT

Nope - (ben_tilly) - July 13, 2003, 08:58:22 PM EDT

Oh, is THAT how you reverse-engineer Microsoft code? - (FuManChu) - July 13, 2003, 09:23:22 PM EDT

Next time I see someone like that, - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 10, 2003, 07:19:17 PM EDT

Next time you see someone like that - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 12:45:05 PM EDT

Also depends on the College - (Simon_Jester) - (2) - July 10, 2003, 10:25:10 PM EDT

He did not use STL because of the way I posed the question - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 08:46:32 AM EDT

ah - now I understand - (Simon_Jester) - July 11, 2003, 09:00:22 AM EDT

Phew - (broomberg) - (12) - July 10, 2003, 06:52:56 PM EDT

This may be too harsh - (Arkadiy) - (5) - July 10, 2003, 07:22:08 PM EDT

Exactly - (deSitter) - (3) - July 10, 2003, 08:59:35 PM EDT

This is not "pressure programming" - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 08:41:33 AM EDT

Yes, precisely - (deSitter) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 09:27:10 AM EDT

That particular algorithm has been really successful - (Arkadiy) - July 11, 2003, 09:57:31 AM EDT

They did not do this to juniors - (broomberg) - July 11, 2003, 07:49:40 PM EDT

Re: Phew - (deSitter) - July 10, 2003, 08:53:22 PM EDT

Insertion Sort - (gdaustin) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:00:29 AM EDT

Merge Sort is better - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 03:51:27 AM EDT

What a waste of time - (tuberculosis) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 03:37:19 AM EDT

I think qsort is a bad example. - (static) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 10:25:16 AM EDT

I'm trying hard to recall - (FuManChu) - July 11, 2003, 10:42:47 AM EDT

Re: Another "removeSpaces" from a job candidate - (orion) - July 10, 2003, 08:34:49 PM EDT

okies yankout spaces - (boxley) - (20) - July 10, 2003, 11:14:52 PM EDT

Re: okies yankout spaces - (gdaustin) - (19) - July 11, 2003, 12:02:20 AM EDT

In Visual BASIC 6.0 and above - (orion) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:06:01 AM EDT

Nope -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 11, 2003, 08:47:25 AM EDT

s/ //g -NT - (ben_tilly) - (6) - July 11, 2003, 12:40:36 AM EDT

(string findTokens: ' ') inject: '' into: [:a :b | a,b] -NT - (tuberculosis) - (3) - July 11, 2003, 03:43:24 AM EDT

beautiful :) -NT - (deSitter) - July 11, 2003, 09:30:00 AM EDT

Doh! Better: string select: [:ea | ea ~= $ ] - (tuberculosis) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:27:20 PM EDT

Or maybe (string copyWithout: $ ) - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 07:08:42 PM EDT

Right before he left, he tried to rally in Perl - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 08:50:08 AM EDT

He might have been better at C++ -NT - (ben_tilly) - July 11, 2003, 11:44:47 AM EDT

Perl - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 11, 2003, 07:00:51 AM EDT

Perl redux - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 11:29:51 AM EDT

sed 's/ //g' filename.txt > filename2.txt - (drewk) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:02:24 PM EDT

key difference, though. - (Steve Lowe) - July 11, 2003, 12:18:59 PM EDT

Java - (gdaustin) - (5) - July 11, 2003, 11:40:45 AM EDT

Wow, that's a lot of typing :-P -NT - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 12:32:06 PM EDT

n^^2 for the worst case - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 01:14:15 PM EDT

Yes you can -NT - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 01:16:12 PM EDT

You're looking for "best algorithm" - (gdaustin) - July 11, 2003, 02:13:16 PM EDT

Re: Java - off the top of my head... - (Simon_Jester) - July 11, 2003, 02:32:22 PM EDT

Fun with code... - (gdaustin) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 12:07:14 AM EDT

I can tell you what will happen - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 10:28:04 AM EDT

Will have to wait for Monday... - (gdaustin) - July 11, 2003, 11:06:03 AM EDT

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