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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to Basic; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. |
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It is beautiful code, but a lot more attention needs to be paid to the production quality version. In particular most beautiful quicksorts take O(n^2) time on a list filled with identical items (see Tim Peters ch. in the Python Cookbook or my article Sorting In Anger.
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