[DennisL123]

Efficiency, not effectiveness. They are all effective in the sense that they produce sorted results. Even the non-modern sort algorithms are effective in the sense that the results are correct. This should be about the efficiency with which they do it, right?

[JSR_FDED]

From TFA:

The title is an homage to Eugene Wigner's 1960 paper "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".

[aabhay]

Agreed. Effectiveness would imply that some algorithms are more likely to sort the list correctly than others, or they sort a higher percentage of elements. Efficiency is about factors external to the correctness

[creata]

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is one of those titles that gets imitated a lot for some reason. Maybe even more than "Goto Considered Harmful".

[kwertyoowiyop]

Coming next: “What we talk about when we talk about modern sort algorithms”