IThm, 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)