Re: Program that makes a list of words.

viza wrote:
> Hi
>
> On May 13, 9:52 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> lundslakt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:
>
>>> I asked my Father, and he suggested that I should use microsoft-word
>>> to make the whole text one column,
>>> and then insert that column in excel and use the sorting
>>> function.
>>
>> Blech!  :-)
>>
>>> But that wont work for long text(more than 65536 words).
>>
>> And it's so inelegant, too.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>>     qsort(WordArray, Treecount, sizeof *WordArray, CompareWords);
>
> pot? kettle? :-)
>
> Even the most rushed semi-efficient implementation would use an insert
> sort on a linked list.  I bet even excel doesn't use qsort.  Perhaps a
> good one would use a tree?
Who says that qsort does not do an insert sort? qsort != quick sort, at 
least not neccarrily, regardless what the name implies

Bye, Jojo