Joe Armstrong has died

Re:Joe Armstrong has died by tombert on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:29AM (#19710546)

I actually did share that email in a sister thread; I also wrote about it specifically in a blog post [1] if you don't want to traverse through the comments.

I completely agree with your thesis. I was a recent college dropout, and Joe's enthusiasm about Erlang, distributed programming, and pretty much everything else about computers was really a good springboard for self-education.

[1] https://medium.com/@tombert/rip-joe-armstrong-b6252ff93654

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Re:Joe Armstrong has died by johnhpatton on Sunday April 21, 2019 @06:55AM (#19711510)

Thanks for sharing that experience. This matches my interactions with him at a couple conferences. Always willing to spend a moment explaining things to anyone. I had the pleasure of drinking beer with him at one of them and he was genuinely excited when I asked to have him sign my erlang book. His Twitter was one of the few I followed. His teachings and musings changed how I view software engineering. He will be missed.

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