More Than One Way to Do It - Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things - page 43

The first ant continued on to Bach. Another appeared and went directly to Recursion Junc-
tion instead. Still others went all the way across to Probability Bay, Permute, Notation, and
other towns. Soon the map had dozens of ants going every which way, collecting bits of
honey and leaving scents for their sisters.
After a few minutes it was clear that some paths were more popular than others. The lines of
ants got wider and wider, until there was just one ant superhighway that marched all around
the map and back to the nest. Hugh Rustic copied it to a piece of paper before the honey dis-
appeared.
“Ah, there you go!” he said, handing Laurie his sketch.
“Thank you, Mister Rustic! Is this really the shortest way?”
“It's a short way. That's as much as I can promise.”