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Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated

Date	2012-08-26 09:11 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.programming.threads, comp.programming
Subject	Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated
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On 8/25/2012 11:15 AM, Wally W. wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:36:03 +0200, Gerald Breuer wrote:
>
>> Am 24.08.2012 20:47, schrieb BartC:
>>
>>>> Maybe, but Pascal is about 1% on the TIOBE-Index.
>>
>>> Who cares? If most people want to behave like sheep and use
>>> flawed tools just because everyone else does, then let them.
>>
>> That's subjective what's flawed or not. And I can live f.e. with the
>> flaws of C++ for the countervalue of powerful language features like
>> templates.
>> If aminer wants others to use his algorithms he should provide them
>> in a language that this people use.
>
> If he wants others to use his algorithms in Pascal, he is doing
> exactly the right thing; generously, in fact.

I would agree if he were posting to a Pascal newsgroup, especially if it
were one that is designated for software announcements.

I don't understand why this particular library is considered so
important and widely used that its updates need to be announced in
comp.programming.

Patricia

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  Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated Gerald Breuer <Gerald.Breuer@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-23 17:43 +0200
    Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-08-24 06:17 -0400
      Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated Gerald Breuer <Gerald.Breuer@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-24 19:24 +0200
        Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-08-24 19:47 +0100
          Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated Gerald Breuer <Gerald.Breuer@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-24 22:36 +0200
            Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2012-08-25 14:15 -0400
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                Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated Toby Douglass <a@b.com> - 2012-09-10 09:43 +0200
              Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-08-26 09:11 -0700
                Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated "aminer" <aminer@videotron.ca> - 2012-08-26 13:12 -0500
                Re: Parallelsort and parallelquicksort have been updated "aminer" <aminer@videotron.ca> - 2012-08-26 13:13 -0500

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