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by microtonal 5486 days ago
No, it's not. First line of Hoare's 1962 paper describing quicksort:

A description is given of a new method of sorting in the random access store of a computer

The paper also emphasizes the use of in-place mutations in quicksort. The qsort one-liner uses lists, which are not random-access and cannot be modified in-place.