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Re: Did the sort do anything?

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On 07 Nov 2011 10:49:05 GMT, Andreas Leitgeb
<avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>Did I miss any subtle but relevant change of the question?
>Or did you re-ask it in the hope of getting new answers this
>time?

My memory is failing.  I have to check a 24-hour clock to find out if
it as AM or PM.   HIV, chemotherapy  and age take their toll.  When I
was younger it was exceptional. It is not something I can voluntarily
control.  It is damn nuisance.

I examine my code. I see the problem  but with no solution. If I did
ask earlier, I did not write an essay on it for the Java Glossary.  I
did not get a solution that could be easily turned into code.  Maybe I
thought about asking but did not get around to it.  Maybe I asked and
the solutions were too much work or not applicable to my situation. So
I ask again.  Somebody with better memory will find the old
discussion.  Maybe someone new will have a new idea.  Maybe someone
will have had some time after percolating on the problem in the
subconscious for a few months.

-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and 
faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers 
do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies
in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later.
Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company
has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore 
ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper 
clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing 
experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the 
best remedy.

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Did the sort do anything? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-07 01:27 -0800
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-07 02:20 -0800
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-07 11:21 +0000
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-07 10:49 +0000
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-07 02:58 -0800
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-07 07:11 -0500
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-11-07 08:30 -0600
      Re: Did the sort do anything? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-07 21:03 -0500
  Re: Did the sort do anything? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-07 07:48 -0800
  Re: Did the sort do anything? dagon@dagon.net (Dagon) - 2011-11-07 12:50 -0800
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Cindy <c.thurston@frell.okb.uwa.edu> - 2011-11-07 22:02 -0500
      Re: Did the sort do anything? Cindy <c.thurston@frell.okb.uwa.edu> - 2011-11-07 22:22 -0500
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-07 17:42 -0500

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