Sorting - a new/old problem

Howard J. Smith · 1979

With text processing growing in importance as a computer application, the problems of sorting and merging will be encountered with increasing frequency. Various techniques have been used in ordering alphabetic strings, but text processing, involving upper- and lower-case alphabets, introduces an extra degree of freedom and complexity to the problem. This paper will present APL models of a solution for the generalized sorting problem.

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