Some older textbooks and references call this the "Shell-Metzner" sort after Marlene Metzner Norton, but according to Metzner, "I had nothing to do with the sort, and my name should never have been attached to it."
一些老版本教科书和参考手册把该算法命名为Shell-Metzner，即包含Marlene Metzner Norton的名字，但是根据Metzner本人的说法，“我没有为这种算法做任何事，我的名字不应该出现在算法的名字中。