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Sleep sort

Given a list of integers to sort:

  • For each integer N, create a process that sleeps N seconds then prints the integer
  • The integers are sorted in the output!

Princeton COS 226 lecture slides noting this sort's purported origin

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You know, I'm something of a scribe myself

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Let's go back to first principles

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Atwood's Law

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

- Jeff Atwood, Stack Overflow

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

Node-OS: The first operating system powered by node.js and npm

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