What is a good motivating example for dataflow concurrency?
- by Alex Miller
I understand the basics of dataflow programming and have encountered it a bit in Clojure APIs, talks from Jonas Boner, GPars in Groovy, etc. I know it's prevalent in languages like Io (although I have not studied Io).
What I am missing is a compelling reason to care about dataflow as a paradigm when building a concurrent program. Why would I…