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Lovecraft & C

2009-12-21 17:49:12.480728+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The C Programming Language - Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft - 4.10 Recursion

I had heard tales of the... thing that C.A.R. Hoare had summoned up in '62– dark hints of choosing one element from an array, and partitioning the rest into lesser and greater sets, and hellishly recursing until the data were twisted into a sorted list– but nothing I could have imagined would be in any way comparable to the daemoniac, blasphemous reality that I saw.

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