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Great nontechnical naive algorithm example - looking up a word in a dictionary.
Jon Skeet on Stack Overflow has a superb example involving looking up a word in a dictionary: "The naive implementation is to start at the very beginning, and look at the first word. Oh, that's not the word we're looking for - look at the next one, etc."
Though I would not call that a naive "implementation".
Is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic compatible with Wikipedia's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CCAS3U)? Stack Overflow content is licensed under the former. If I knew for sure that they were compatible I would have chucked the example in right away. I've asked Mr Skeet whether he wants to release it under CCAS3U already. He may answer here or fakemail@slopsbox.com (or he might edit it into the article himself. Heh.)
