Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <tcumfto5unpji5u109b8bctegnji4po3ap at 4ax.com>,
Tim Roberts  <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>"Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
>>
>>Indeed, the point of teaching bubblesort is to teach *not to use*
>>bubblesort.
>
>I would have said "...to teach WHEN not to use bubblesort."  There have
>been many times I needed to sort a list in some throaway utility when I
>knew the list was going to be limited in size.  I KNOW I can write a
>bubblesort or insertion sort and get it right.  I'd have to look up and
>debug a quicksort or a heapsort.

Except now you use Python, right?
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