This routine vaguely resembles a contrived, incomplete and unnecessary implementation of the radix sort algorithm.

I am currently working on a project for a big mobile phone operator in the UK. They use a J2EE application on their site to handle customer registration. I think it was developed in-house a few years back (maybe 2001? - I don't know, we don't have the history of it - I work for an IT consultancy, and...

asuffield: Yes, do look at it. Most real-world .net programs won't run on mono, because they use MS-specific extensions that aren't in the spec (which mono is trying to reimplement, has not yet managed to reimplement, and MS has patents on some of it). This is a good example of why the "standard" is...