I think people are saying that the algorithm isn't cool enough for its name. Bubbles aren't cool, so bubble sort must be rightly chided. /s Quantum physics? N

I think people are saying that the algorithm isn't cool enough for its name. Bubbles aren't cool, so bubble sort must be rightly chided. /s Quantum physics? Now that's cool, regardless of how much one knows about it. I don't think the reason gets much deeper than that, barring any disagreements that it is just plain misleading. I guess you could argue to some degree that a name should be usefully informative to an outsider or newbie. But that doesn't really apply to things that have already established their cool factor, like 'deep learning', 'crypto', 'agile', 'serverless', etc..