[Chicago] xkcd on Python

[Atul Varma]

 On Dec 10, 2007 11:02 AM, <bray at sent.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:43:29 -0600, "Brian W. Fitzpatrick"
> <fitz at red-bean.com> said:
> >
> > Donald Knuth came and asked "What's the name of my O(log log n) search
> > algorithm?"
>
> He must have meant O(n log n) for QuickSort right? What was his answer?
>

He tactfully evaded the question.

One of my favorite quotes from the session was when he said "if Python is
executable pseudocode, then Perl is executable line noise."

- Atul
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