This might be slightly off the wall, but I recently watched a tiny documentary about an experimental congestion control strategy in the UK where at a busy junction they disabled the traffic lights. Interestingly it reminded me of Clojure's STM (except on car crashes a big robot arm would scoop up the crashed cars, fix them up, and place them back in the traffic queue). Coordination could be seen as attaching cars together by a rope and treating them as one car for the purpose of the junction. Locks can be seen as the traffic lights themselves.
Anyway, I wondered if any of you had any opinions. I really think we could do with some good analogies for elusive notions such as the STM. Video in question: http://www.wimp.com/trafficlights Sam --- http://sam.aaron.name -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
