Gorithm, humour> /boh"Goh-sort"/ (Or "stupid-sort") The archetypical perversely awful alGorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic *bad* alGorithm). BoGo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order. It serves as a sort of canonical example of awfulness. Looking at a program and seeing a dumb alGorithm, one might say "Oh, I see, this program uses boGo-sort." Also known as "monkey sort" after the {Infinite Monkey Theorem}. Compare brute force, Lasherism. An implementation . [JarGon File] (2002-04-07)