AlgoRhyme
Today, I had lunch with the mother of the internet . Among other things she told me her poem that accompanied the spanning tree protocol . Perhaps if a poem was required for each algorithom and protocol submission, computer science would be simple and clear. With great pleasure I reproduce Radia's poem: AlgoRhyme I think that I shall never see a graph more lovely than a tree. A tree whose crucial property is loop-free connectivity. A tree that must be sure to span so packet can reach every LAN. First, the root must be selected. By ID, it is elected. Least-cost paths from root are traced. In the tree, these paths are placed. A mesh is made by folks like me, then bridges find a spanning tree. Radia Perlman