This reminds me of Rich Hickey's Clojure Concurrency talk[1], where he uses a simulation of an ant colony to explain Clojure's concurrency features. Hickey's ve

This reminds me of Rich Hickey's Clojure Concurrency talk[1], where he uses a simulation of an ant colony to explain Clojure's concurrency features. Hickey's version[2] is a lot simpler, but remains an interesting starting point if you want to hack on something similar. [1] http://blip.tv/file/812787 http://blip.tv/file/812787 [2] http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/ants.clj?gda=T0C_CjoAAADKqc_OBXvAPFRl94RaAIUvcpc6E-YHRrsRh9IuR-MtA-9OU0NQiFWgQuhmPR7veGf97daDQaep90o7AOpSKHW0 http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/ants.clj?gda=T0C_CjoAAAD...