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Re: The Sort Problem (was: well, The Sort Problem)

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From:
Angel Faus
Date:
February 13, 2004 06:46
Subject:
Re: The Sort Problem (was: well, The Sort Problem)
Message ID:
200402131512.43502.afaus@corp.vlex.com

Friday 13 February 2004 15:02, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> If you're *really* looking to get fancy, why not just allow the
> sort specification to be done with SQL? Comfortable,
> well-understood, already has a decade or so of stupid things welded
> into it [...]
>
> Heck, you could even unify map, grep, and sort [...]
>

That would be postmodern indeed.

-angel
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