Dataflow Programming for Clojure with Pulsar

For me the most obvious use-case of Dataflow is converting a monster un-maintainable spreadsheet into something more robust and testable.

Are there others out there that have worked the other way around? e.g. saw problem that best fits the Dataflow paradigm and built up from there?

And perhaps said their problem was too small, better to just do all this in a spreadsheet that is maintained by someone who has Excel expertise and costs 1/2 to 1/3 of a Clojure programmer.

Clojure keeps getting all these cool features. I remember when I first found about channels in clojure and I got really excited. Just makes me want to go back and keep playing with it hoping some day I'll use it for something in production.

Tangent: Are you a front end developer? This page shows some of what bugs me about what's happening to the web. It didn't used to be this way.

My screenshots of this page:

http://imgur.com/a/v0Wmf

I'm using FF on linux, and my browser occupies the left half of my screen.

The first, top image is what that tab looked like when it was initially rendered. Everything jumbled on top of everything else. Maybe that's partly or totally FF's "fault", but it is where the page is going to be rendered for a significant portion of people, and it is what it is, despite what the page designer wishes.

The second image is the browser in full screen mode. Everything readable. Big left and right whitespace columns, which is fine. In fact if the text stretched across the whole page that would have been its own readability problem.

Notice the code sample, rendered in a box. There's a significant amount of whitespace on the right of the box, making the box wider than necessary. Notice the article text seems to take the width of the box. I don't know enough about the front end to want to figure whether that's the case, or if the text and box are taking the width of some more encompassing element.

Either way, the third image is the browser un-fullscreened. Somehow the act of fullscreening and un-fullscreening made the page render sensibly. Yay.

But now the text is cut off on the right. The text is flowing according to some element or directive that ignores browser width. I hate this, particularly because it's so unnecessary.

The fourth, final image is that page, rendered when the browser has styles turned off. It's so 90s! It's so readable! It also shows that it can be done.

Had the page been designed with all its beautiful design elements (and they are beautiful), but rendered more to the browser than to some static design idea, we all would have been spared this rant, and I would be finished reading the article by this time.

Won't you help?

Has anyone used this extensively and could share some experiences building with it?