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Re: Joe Armstrong has died

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Post by dpapathanasiou »

And it was just over ten years ago when Erlang took over the front page of hacker news in a flash prank:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

Unfortunately, I cannot find a screenshot or archived view now (web.archive.org took a capture on March 10th, and not again until the 14th).

Re: Joe Armstrong has died

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Post by lovehashbrowns »

I'm another person that learned about Erlang through Elixir. Never got to talk to Joe Armstrong in person. But I do want to acknowledge that his work with Erlang, via Elixir, has given me the opportunity and hope of becoming an entrepreneur this year. I'm thankful for what he has given to the world. Thank you, Joe Armstrong, rest in peace. ️

Re: Joe Armstrong has died

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Post by giancarlostoro »

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #171

And it was just over ten years ago when Erlang took over the front page of hacker news in a flash prank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 Unfortunately, I cannot find a screenshot or archived view now (web.archive.org took a capture on March 10th, and not again until the 14th).

That is pretty awesome, and I love the fact he had to come back and say, no seriously guys, I was just kidding, no need to flood Erlang. Man I swear Erlang is highly underrated. I've not had the pleasure of building much with it, only read through parts of the book by Joe and kept up with some of his blogs and posts from time to time. Anybody who loves servers should really pay attention to his work.

Re: Joe Armstrong has died

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dpapathanasiou wrote: post #171

And it was just over ten years ago when Erlang took over the front page of hacker news in a flash prank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 Unfortunately, I cannot find a screenshot or archived view now (web.archive.org took a capture on March 10th, and not again until the 14th).

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Re: Joe Armstrong has died

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Post by giancarlostoro »

kozak wrote: post #3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)

> At 17, Armstrong began programming Fortran on his school district's mainframe. This experience helped him during his physics studies at University College London, where he debugged the programs of his fellow students in exchange for beer. While working for the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, he helped develop Erlang in 1986.

This is pretty legendary. He was quite the programmer.

Re: Joe Armstrong has died

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Post by accnumnplus1 »

The black bar usually indicates the passing of someone I'm not especially familiar with. When I looked down the page and saw Joe's name I was really caught off guard. I never met him but followed him and the Erlang scene long enough to know we've lost someone special.

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Post by chj »

This is a shock. I have been following his twitter and all is looking well. Learned a lot from his erlang paper. Wish I had the courage to write him an email and thank him. I can't believe it.

Re: Joe Armstrong has died

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Post by phlakaton »

solipsism wrote: post #157
tosh wrote: post #10

Just 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

Guess I'm alone in not seeing what's so good about this talk. He only presents problems, and in an extremely disorganized way. The closest thing to a solution is "wait, hardware advancement will eventually make your slow code fast." It's definitely entertaining, but that's about all I can give it.

The idea of "no copies – everything exists in one place and has a unique ID" was new to me. I still don't know if it's a good idea, let alone practicable, but it's great food for thought!
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