"Writing the fastest quick sort in a given language is an exercise for fresh young brains."
I can't see the reasoning here. Surely it's a job for someone who has written previous sorting algorithms, understands the trade-offs between speed and memory, and understand the pitfalls that can be fallen into when sorting different kinds of data?
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Agreed.
It assumes that years of experience mean you shouldn't be programming. Which seems...odd to me.
Maybe the author understands programming as "writing lines of code", and not as "architecting software".
Architecture requires experience. Writing the fastest quick sort in a given language is an exercise for fresh young brains.
"Writing the fastest quick sort in a given language is an exercise for fresh young brains."
I can't see the reasoning here. Surely it's a job for someone who has written previous sorting algorithms, understands the trade-offs between speed and memory, and understand the pitfalls that can be fallen into when sorting different kinds of data?
An experienced brain would look up the pre-written libraries, and use the best of those rather than writing his own buggy implementation.