Writing a binary search was one of the first things taught when learning COBOL and IBM 370 Assembler back in the day. I’m pretty sure I implemented it at least once in each language. What I really wrote numerous times for implementation was bubble sort. There were no handy framework DLLs to call back then.
Thanks to you and Joshua Bloch the author for reminding us to be pedantic when it comes to making values fit into ints.
Writing a binary search was one of the first things taught when learning COBOL and IBM 370 Assembler back in the day. I’m pretty sure I implemented it at least once in each language. What I really wrote numerous times for implementation was bubble sort. There were no handy framework DLLs to call back then.