meaning of sorting

1. of Sort
2. sorting See sort. SOS 1. Scheme Object System. 2. An infamously losing text editor. Once, back in the 1960s, when a text editor was needed for the PDP-6, a hacker crufted together a quick-and-dirty "stopgap editor" to be used until a better one was written. Unfortunately, the old one was never really discarded when new ones in particular, TECO came along. SOS is a descendant "Son of Stopgap" of that editor, and many PDP-10 users gained the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance. Since then other programs similar in style to SOS have been written, notably the early font editor BILOS /byelohs/, the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap the alternate expansion "Bastard Issue, Loins of Stopgap" has been proposed. 3. The PDP-10 instruction to decrease a value. Oppose AOS. [Jargon File] sound 1. audio. 2. An inference system A is sound with respect to another system B if A can only reach conclusions which are true in B. A type inference system is considered sound with respect to a semantics if the type inferred for an expression is the same as the type inferred for the meaning of that expression under the semantics. The dual to soundness is completeness.
3. grouping by class or kind or size

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