I remember his joke .. Erlang is "write once, run forever". Fascinating. The BEAM will run forever since there are also other languages compiled to it.
Joe Armstrong has died
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#72Back 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…
Do you have recording of that session?
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#73Re: Joe Armstrong has died
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Candy-coated Elixir, which tries to hide concepts that are difficult for people who approach programming without the requisite mathematical skills, may be getting most of the attention, but serious mission-critical "nine-nines" projects are still being done in Erlang. I program in Erlang every day for a system that can't (and doesn't) have any downtime.
Please don't do this sort of thing. It's crass and it's wrong besides.
Appeal to disgust fallacy.
Let people mourn how they will.
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#75Please down vote this. This was a hoax.
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#76How we program multicores:
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#77That is so sad, he was in his late 60s and it seemed like he had a lot of life left in him, talking about how software can get better and having a great (and sometimes snarky) outlook on the profession. Highly recommend his thesis (2003) and a few of his great interviews/presentations for anyone who isn’t familiar with Joe, it captures a lot of what he thought about and pushed for in his professional life. http://erl…
> That is so sad, he seemed like he had a lot of life left in him talking about how software can get better and having a great (and sometimes snarky) outlook on the profession. I'm in actual shock, he was tweeting about pretty much that (also brexit and playing with his phone's voice recognition) just 2 weeks ago… He wasn't even 70…
Yeah me too, he was also very active in the Elixir forum. RIP
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#79I first learnt about Joe from this music video (based on Erlang: The Movie, I believe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LjmDCOM-8 Afterwards looked up talks by him and was fascinated by Erlang, sad to see him pass away.
Never saw this, love it!
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#80Anyone know what he died of/from?
Glad I’m not the only one who wants to know