From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-01-26T12:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Making Change (#154)

On Jan 25, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Jens Wille wrote:

> James Gray [2008-01-25 23:57]:
>> I guess I should have said:  is it that hard to call sort { |a,b|
>> b <=> a }?
> am i missing something? what's wrong with sort.reverse? apart from
> the fact that it's a whole lot faster ;-)

Because my first computer science teacher drilled into my head that  
you sort it correctly in the first place, instead of using two  
operations to get what you wanted.  I guess he hadn't run into Ruby  
yet.  ;)

James Edward Gray II