Sleep Sort

The best sorting algorithm, anonymously invented on 2011-01-20..

Man, am I a genius. Check out this sorting algorithm I just invented.

#!/bin/bash
function f() {
    sleep "$1"
    echo "$1"
}
while [ -n "$1" ]
do
    f "$1" &
    shift
done
wait

example usage:
./sleepsort.bash 5 3 6 3 6 3 1 4 7