It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once stated:
It would occasionally give a message
"bubble-sorting files" when I accessed
a drive. Does this simply mean sequentially ordering ?
'Bubble Sort' has nothing to do with bubble memory. Bubble sort is a
well-known, very poor, sorting algorithm -- so poor that one book I have
contains the quote (from memory) 'If you know what a bubble sort is, wipe
it from your mind. If you don't, make a point of never finding out' :-)
But it beats out the lesser known Bogosort:
Pick two items from the list. Swap if necessary [1]. Repeat until list
is sorted.
-spc (Must be the one Microsoft patentened 8-)
[1] I think. It might just be ``Swap, if needed or not.''