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ww2
on March 26, 2014
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What it's like to use Haskell
This is a typical pitfall of many FP code chuck examples. trading efficiency for superficial succinctness.
tel
on March 26, 2014
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Eh, a lot of FP is used for teaching. I don't think this example is as much about succinctness as it is about clarity. The idea of partitioning on a pivot and recursing is definitely key to quicksort, if not its totality.
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