[toast0]

Sure. In this case, the smarter people wrote the sort in ~1995 and it was good enough for nearly 30 years, but now someone has to step up and be smart again.

You can't always rely on smarter people to be there to do things for you. And you also can't rely on the standard library to have been written by smarter people anyway, and even if so, to have been written by smarter people in order to handle the situation you find yourself in. There's lots of ways to sort, and lots of good reasons to choose ways that are less than optimal for the use cases they end up being used in.

[tinus_hn]

You’re defending the claim that implementing qsort is too hard, definitely the people who wrote the standard library are smarter than the people putting in bubble sort because quicksort is too hard.

This is just a moronic defense of the venerated FreeBSD developers, it’s on a level equal to organized religion. The FreeBSD developers are fine developers and this was dumb, that’s why they replaced it.

And in this day and age there really is no argument for any user space c environment to exist where the qsort standard library function is not available. And even if there was, it would still be smarter to just copy and paste the battletested code from the c library than write another implementation. Because that’s how you end up with bubblesort because doing it right is too hard.