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From: andrew@cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Dinn)
Subject: Re: quicksort
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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 15:36:38 GMT
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Jamie Andrews (jamie@cs.sfu.ca) wrote:
: Dirk Gunsthoevel wrote:

: >I think the problem with this case is that the task was not a proper
: >one for a class. How can you expect that people are stupid enough
: >to reprogram an algorithm if it is clear that it has been done
: >before. 

:      I don't think it was necessarily clear to the students that
: it was easily available.  The student who posted the question
: evidently didn't think that it might be in a text.

My two cents cynically calculates that the student might have known
the code was available in a textbook but was trying to avoid having to
type it in by asking for an electronic version. i.e. we have here not
just a cheat but a lazy, cheat. I'll vote with Richard for suspension.
How high do you want the pole?


Andrew Dinn
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