On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:29:13PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Dave Long wrote: > > > [1] http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/sorter.html > > >You may have heard the story of the operator who dropped a whole box of > > >cards. Wanting to put things right as quickly as possible, he sorted the > > >cards, without consulting the user. As it turned out, that was the worst > > >possible response. Up until that point, the box had contained a sample of > > >random numbers. > > >-Ted Powell, Dec 2006 > > Floor sort: > > http://randomruminations.net/2872/floor-sort > > Perhaps quite a different story but linked, kind of.
Amusing. Perhaps GNU sort's -R option should have a --floor alias? Sorry about the bounce. I've added you to the list of kragen-discuss authorized posters. -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.canonical.org/mailman/listinfo/kragen-discuss
