Concurrency Patterns: Java, Scala, and ClojureToday I was at The Strange Loop conference. The first talk I attended was by Dean Wampler on functional programming in Ruby. Dean brought up the Actor concurrency model and how it could be done in Ruby. Of course I am quite familiar with this model in Scala, though it is copied from Erlang (which copied it from some other source I'm sure.) The next talk I went to was on software transactional memo
