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It's full of stupid comments. E.g. the python implementation has this attached.

```py """Warning: This code completes in a shocking O(n log n) time complexity and allocates memory with reckless abandon""" ```

How shocking that sorting is an O(n log n) algorithm.

Edit: he then goes on to use bubble sort.

I think there might be a large amount of tounge in cheek with this blog post, but it doesn't really land.



Technically, because the bubble sort is implemented at compile time the program is infinitely faster.

The answer is produced as a compiler error and so there is zero runtime at all.


I thought it all completely landed, that it was very obvious what you were doing, and that it was very funny as well as being real neato. Frankly I would probably put negative stock in the opinion of anyone who sees you accusing that python code of being hard to read and thinks you're remotely serious.




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