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Separate user interaction and computation.

Allow your program to accept user interaction while conducting a long running computation.

Example:

Hello user! Please input a string to permute: (input thread)
abcdef
Passing on abcdef... (input thread)
Please input another string to permute: (input thread)
lol
Passing on lol... (input thread)
Done Work On abcdef! (worker thread)
["abcdef", "abcefd", ... ] (worker thread)
Please input another string to permute: (input thread)
EXIT
Quitting, I'll let my worker thread know... (input thread)
We'
re quitting! Alright! (worker thread)

--Notice, that this could be accomplished on the command line or within a GUI. The point is that computation and user interaction should take place on separate threads of control.
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clojure
(defn background-computation [_ s]
(let [res (permutations s)]
(println (format "Done Work On %s!" s))
(println res)))

(defn shutdown-app [_]
(println "We're quitting! Alright!")
(shutdown-agents))

(println "Hello user! Please input a string to permute: ")
(let [worker-agent (agent nil)]
(loop [input (str (read))]
(if (= input "EXIT")
(do (println "Quitting, I'll let my worker thread know...")
(send worker-agent shutdown-app))
(do (println (format "Passing on %s..." input))
(send worker-agent background-computation input)
(println "Please input another string to permute: ")
(recur (str (read)))))))

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