Template talk:Selection sort core implementations

Purpose of this template
This is based on Template talk:Quicksort core implementations.

For some reason, people have an overwhelming urge to add implementations of sorting algorithms in every conceivable language. Once upon a time, the selection sort article's "Implementations" section was five times as long as the rest of the article put together. To deal with this, most of these implementations were moved out to selection sort implementations, a comprehensive list of selection sort implementations, leaving only a few representative ones in the original article. However, because we also want those few representative ones in selection sort implementations, this could create a fork where the two articles could diverge. This template is placed in both articles to prevent this divergence. It has the nice side effect of making it harder to edit the core implementations than the "additional" implementations, since people tend to continue to add too many implementations to the main article. Deco 00:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)