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Re:Lampsort: Leslie Lamport's Non-recursive Quicksort by coldcode on Sunday December 07, 2014 @10:29PM (#8714768)
Better is always subjective. Eiffel is not exactly in common usage in real programs. Lots of people think their language is better at something but until lots of people start using it, we don't really know.
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Re:Lampsort: Leslie Lamport's Non-recursive Quicksort by vram22 on Monday December 08, 2014 @11:09AM (#8717134)
>Better is always subjective. True, and I implied that in my first sentence. It is well known that Eiffel is not used by a lot of people. That does not automatically mean it is not good, though.
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