> When I first read Knuth's TAOCP books, in ... > I have since realized that we also have more data *and* those algorithms do > contain some very nice gems that are still useful. If Definitely.
The bible for actually building space-limited sorting tools is Hal Lorin's book /Sorting and Sort Systems/, (ISBN:0201144530) Lorin, Harold; in the A-W seies, the old white-and-gold ones done by IBM researchers. If someone buys a beer, I'll explain how I came to study this tome so hard, so long ago. It involved several write-only languages and Perl-67 as MJD refers to PL1. bill --- William Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
