One of my favorite quotes from Joe: “Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90% of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”
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#62Just re-watched his Strangeloop talk: “The mess we’re in”. Still so spot on. He will be dearly missed. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
"And then we've got this sort of dichotomy between efficiency and clarity. You know, to make something clearer, you add a layer of abstraction and to make it more efficient you remove a layer of abstraction. So go for the clarity bit. Wait ten years and it will be a thousand times faster, you want it a million times faster, wait 20 years."
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#63Back in 2015, I somehow ended up as part of a panel discussion at the end of a conference. The panel was going to include Joe Armstrong, Don Syme (inventor of F#), Tony Hoare (!), and myself (a nobody compared to any of them). During the conference, I wanted to meet each of the other folks on the panel, and ended up in a somewhat lengthy conversation with Joe Armstrong -- mostly about Erlang, but at some point the pa…
Not at all hard to believe that he was sincere. He seemed to be pretty starstruck when he was interviewing Alan Kay on stage just three years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY.
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#64This is devastating, RIP.
I watched this talk a few months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmueBVrLKcY called "Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed"
It was superb, I think it's unfortunate that he had to rush through it because of time constraints, his anecdotes and delivery were really engaging and funny.
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#655 or 6 years ago I saw a presentation of Joe in Infoq. There he said "solution of the dining philosophers problem is to give fork to everyone". It really made me interested in actor based system. Now here I am, building financial system in java where akka is the vital component of the system. Thank you very much Joe. Rest in peace.
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#66This is so sad. RIP Joe. I'll miss him so much.
Erlang is one of the most Perlis languages for me. I'm always a little bit cynical and think Erlang deserve more attention. Several months ago Joe post this tweet about a game company refused to tell other people they are using Erlang.
https://twitter.com/joeerl/status/1104298407231922176
I just watched his great talk last year not long ago - The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science:
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#67Just re-watched his Strangeloop talk: “The mess we’re in”. Still so spot on. He will be dearly missed. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
“It said I didn’t have grunt installed. So I googled a bit, and I found out what grunt was. Grunt is ... I still don’t really know what it is.”
Delivered that line with perfect timing and humility. What a great sense of humor!
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s done any time someone “with significance to the community” dies. I’m not sure when it started but it’s been a thing for many years. Feels extremely appropriate to me, and honestly, it was the first thing I looked for after I saw a tweet about this. RIP, Joe :(
RIP Joe indeed. He will be sorely missed as a pillar of the BEAM community. Not to diverge too far, but does anyone know who the first black bar was?
I tried to use the search and couldn’t find anything authoritative.
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#69From the day I learned about his work he became my greatest influence in my career, and still is to this day. I'm grateful for all the insights and the perpetually fresh perspective, on distributed systems, on PL research, on databases and on OOP.
I'm grateful that I have someone like him to look up to in my profession: able to solve hard problems while still having fun with novel solutions, while still keeping it all simple.
We'll take at least 20 years just to catch up with him.
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#70Back in 2015, I somehow ended up as part of a panel discussion at the end of a conference. The panel was going to include Joe Armstrong, Don Syme (inventor of F#), Tony Hoare (!), and myself (a nobody compared to any of them). During the conference, I wanted to meet each of the other folks on the panel, and ended up in a somewhat lengthy conversation with Joe Armstrong -- mostly about Erlang, but at some point the pa…
Joe always seemed like a super approachable and super humble guy. I never interacted with him but he always left a good taste in my mouth whenever I watched him on video--which happened quite often in the period during which I was obsessed with Erlang.
It's a sad day...