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Message: [QUOTE="Patricia Shanahan, post: 3616998"] My web page on debug strategy became top of the Google search for its title soon after I wrote it, and is still there several years later. I think I know why. I have a habit of posting a link to it each time I see a newsgroup question that suggests that the poster does not know how to approach non-trivial debug. Indeed, I wrote the web page in order to have an answer for those questions. My postings have a side effect of creating links to the web page from several well-connected archives of Java discussions. In any case, I feel this whole discussion of Google rankings and achievements is irrelevant and pointless. I don't think argument from authority has any place in newsgroups with very few exceptions, and those exceptions are so obvious that resumes do not need to be discussed. The only thing that would convince me that JSH has an algorithm for TSP would be a clearly defined algorithm for TSP with an associated proof of correctness. I would be interested if he ever posted a good attempt, a clearly described algorithm with no obvious, small counter-examples. Patricia [/QUOTE]