linda

Has anyone used rinda, pylinda, or the like?

Does anyone have any experience with rinda, the ruby library for the linda blackboard system? Most specifically, I'm curious about the possibility of using it to provide a ruby interface (with some sort of shim) to some extant erlang code via the tuplespace. So any knowledge about the protocol it uses would be great. But more generall...

What is Linda & what scenarios would you use it in?

How would you describe Linda in plain language and what are common uses for it today? ...