BUAF // n.
[abbreviation, from _alt.fan.warlord_] Big Ugly ASCII
Font -- a special form of ASCII
art. Various programs exist for rendering text strings
into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four
and six character cells on a side; this is smaller than the
letters generated by older banner
(sense 2) programs. These are sometimes used to render one's name
in a sig block, and are
critically referred to as `BUAF's. See warlording.
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BUAG // n.
[abbreviation, from _alt.fan.warlord_] Big Ugly ASCII
Graphic. Pejorative term for ugly ASCII
art, especially as found in sig
blocks. For some reason, mutations of the head of Bart
Simpson are particularly common in the least imaginative sig blocks. See warlording.
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bubble sort n.
Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of
adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and
interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries `bubble
upward' in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort
value. Because it is not very good relative to other methods and
is the one typically stumbled on by naive and untutored programmers, hackers
consider it the canonical example
of a naive algorithm. (However, it's been shown by repeated
experiment that below about 5000 records bubble-sort is OK
anyway.) The canonical example of a really bad algorithm
is bogo-sort. A bubble sort might
be used out of ignorance, but any use of bogo-sort could issue
only from brain damage or willful perversity.