Re: Two COBOL Memories
"I've always (well, very rarely, but whenever someone mentions it), wondered why bubble sort is so often taught as "my first sort algorithm""
Actually, when I took compsci back in the late 1990s, surprisingly the info both in textbook and by prof amounted to "You may have heard of Bubble Sort. DON'T USE IT", and skipped directly to (if I recall) merge sort.