Talk:Sort stability

Why not ask for a stable sort?

Why not just ask for an implementation of a stable sort?
What purpose does it serve to exclude languages that can implement the task as a user routine? --Tinku99 05:08, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Tinku, Some people, especially those new to a language, might not know too much about the facilities that the language comes with. This task is a comparison of what languages provide rather than what they can be programmed to provide and might be just as useful.
Integer literals, Mutual Recursion, and Common number base formatting are some other tasks that similarly try to contrast the 'native' capabilities of each language. --Paddy3118 09:08, 7 June 2009 (UTC)