Template talk:Insertion sort core implementations
Purpose of this template[edit]
For some reason, people have an overwhelming urge to add implementations of sorting algorithms in every conceivable language. Insertion sort once contained many implementations in various programming languages, most of them simple translations with no additional benefit. To deal with this, most of these implementations were moved out to insertion sort implementations, a comprehensive list of insertion sort implementations, leaving only a few representative ones in the original article. However, because we also want those few representative ones in insertion sort implementations, this created a fork where the two articles diverged. This template is placed in now 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 are continuing to add too many core implementations. Deco 00:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)