To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories . of computer science, there is perhaps no more fundamental task than to sort. Bubble, heap, merge—take your pick. The methods for reordering data inside a computer have been theorized to death, served as practice exercises for millions of novices, and been optimized for decades by expert developers. Type a sort function in any programming language, and its code you can rely on. Dont touch it. It already works great. But last
