From fisseha@cig.mot.com Sat Jan 21 12:05:29 1995 Received: from motgate.mot.com by apollo.aoe.vt.edu via SMTP (920330.SGI/911001.SGI) for yacob id AA00569; Sat, 21 Jan 95 12:05:29 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com by motgate.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1 for ) id AA28753; Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:04:55 -0600 Received: from motcig.cig.mot.com by pobox.mot.com with SMTP (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4/MOT-3.1) id AA17088; Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:04:54 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by motcig.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id LAA08877; Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:04:53 -0600 Message-Id: <199501211704.LAA08877@motcig.cig.mot.com> Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id LAA23745; Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:04:53 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Subject: Re: Sorting To: yacob (Daniel Yacob) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 11:04:53 -0600 (CST) Cc: ybf2u@curry.edschool.virginia.edu, fisseha@gerbil.cig.mot.com In-Reply-To: <199501210404.WAA21578@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Daniel Yacob" at Jan 20, 95 11:04:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1007 Status: RO > > > very important where ethiopic punctuation and numbers go. Sorting > will be A LOT easier for programers if the address table is already > in sorted order (since programers and computers work with characters > as numbers). well, imho, the order of the address table is not `critical' for sorting. basically, no matter what kind of addressing scheme you have, it is simple to have a program have it own internal representation that it can work is. that is, all elements in the address table can be mapped into another table internal to the application. granted, this adds a level of indirection, but it really isnt that big a hassle for programmers. maybe im overlooking something. what discussion did this stem from? -yf -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------