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by jrs235 1057 days ago
I disagree.

WHY: Using _______ sort because at time of writing code, the anticipated sets are ... and given this programming language and environment ... this tends to be more performant (or this code was easiest and quickest to write and understand).

This way when someone later come along and says WTF?! They know why or at least some of the original developers reasoning for choosing that code implementation.