Coney-catching Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word "coney" (sometimes spelled "conny"), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice in medieval and Renaissance England in which devious people on the street would try to con or cheat vulnerable or gullible pedestrians. The term appears in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare, and in the John Florio translation of Montaigne's essay, "Of the Cannibals." The term was first used in print by
Bubble sort and that this method of sorting has sometimes been called the "sifting" or "sinking" technique. This debate is perpetuated by the ease with which one may consider this algorithm from two different but equally valid perspectives: Google CEO Eric Schmidt asked president Barack Obama once during an interview about the best way to sort one million integers – and Obama, pausing for a moment, then replied: "I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go." Bubble sort Bubble sort, sometimes referred to as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the list, compares