The locking problems that article mentions are a perfect use-case for software transactional memory. Which Haskell and Clojure have. I would wager that someone

The locking problems that article mentions are a perfect use-case for software transactional memory. Which Haskell and Clojure have. I would wager that someone could make a straightforward multithreaded GUI toolkit in either of those languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory