Hearing Joe's talks on various topics of computing are thrilling. Long live Erlang and Elixir.
Joe Armstrong has died
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#92Back 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…
quite interesting having to see again an estimation system based on primates size comprehension. it is supposed to use the brains but instead of this, it always ends up with primate comparison horseshit.
because if you are talented, you already bypass monkey thinking patterns and can honestly express your thought.
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#93Just 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 is a great talk. Based on that I took his course on Erlang at FutureLearn, which was also very good. Sadly, when I sent that link to some colleagues at work they shrugged and have since kept adding more and more dependencies and complexity to the front-end build. It's very hard to stop momentum once it's got going, culturally.
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#94https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)
Would anyone be able to suggest a quality photo of Joe to use for his Wikipedia page? I will be spending some time this weekend improving his page.
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#95This is absolutely devastating! His talk "The Mess We're In" was one of those talks which were incredibly funny and informative at the same time. I absolutely lost it, when he told the story of the single comment his coworker put into the Erlang code.[1]
Rest in peace!
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#96So sad. Humble, open minded genius. I was hugely impressed the first time I learned about Erlang and impressed again when I saw how welcoming and open minded he approached Elixir and it's community. A great man has left the planet :-(
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#98Erlang was one of the first interesting languages I learned after the “basics” (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, etc) and even though I never actually used it for anything real, just learning it opened my eyes to a bunch of concepts that have been useful over the years.
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#99Back 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…
That jives with my personal experiences with Joe. I don't think he misunderstood you.
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#100I always enjoyed watching his talks.
My feelings to friends and family.