Re:Dynamic Programming: The Name (1984)
by QuercusMax on Monday September 12, 2016 @12:39AM
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In a similar category is Shellsort[1]. When I learned about it, they helpfully neglected to mention it was created by some guy named Shell; unlike bubble sort, insertion sort, mergesort, etc., the name has nothing to do with the technique. I spent way too long trying to figure out what it had to do with shells.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellsort