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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: the 'science' in computer scienscience
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:50:41 +0200
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> Jon Bentley gave a good example of this in one of the Programming
> Pearls books; he gave an assignment to write something, I don't know
> what, exactly, perhaps binary search.

in the 2nd ed you'll find it in column 12, as problem 6 (the
footnote explains the story):

    I assigned the problem of generating sorted subsets ...

page 130.

the acm had it on some special offer so i just bought it.