Stalin-Sort

Stalin-Sort using divide and conquer.

I just love this idea:

I     came up with a single pass O(n) sort algorithm I call Stalin-Sort. U iterate   down the list of elements checking if they are in order. Any element which is  out of order is eliminated. At the end u have a sorted list

But when you have an input such as [42,1,2,3,4,5,6] you just get
[42] instead of [1,2,3,4,5,6]. You can get a better result if you use divide and conquer. And that is something Stalin would do, don’t you think? So I implemented a recursive solution in Java. It tries all possible results, which is not a single pass and therefore defeats the purpose of having a fast O(n) algorithm. And my implementation isn’t even in-place. A new data structure has to be created. That’s why I also added an implementation using a linked list, which is what Mathew describes.

The code is on pastebin: https://pastebin.com/rEmvZSiA

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