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1950–2019 United States

Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems.

United States
Computer scientists

Also known as: Joe Armstrong

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I could not understand how people could have get started with PHP because there was not message at all.

We are computer scientists, we are slaves who works for these big companies [Google, Facebook].

I think we need to start describing configuration languages that describe how the thing is built and configured.

I have a problem with categorization problem because I cannot say this thing got to be in that module or that class.

I do not think we can build systems that are large with large components.

I think we have to think about how we can make systems out of very small components with very strictly defined protocols between them.

Without Google and Stackoverflow programming would be impossible.

When we write code, we forgot about the bigger picture.

If we combine git and bittorrent we got gittorrent.

If you can't detect failures, you are unable to recover from them. That's an obvious principle you need.

Computers are becoming a big environmental threat. They are using more energy than air traffic.

If the entire computer crashes, you're screwed. you can't really do fault tolerant computation from one machine.

The other thing you have got to do is take the data out of the cloud and put it into your home cloud. Make your own home cloud.

Many programs don’t have well-defined interface. They should have.

Messages are like files. We don't care how it was created.

Things can be small. They don't have to be gigabytes.

Pipes are wonderful. They are doing wonderful things.

You don't want your fault creep into the system and damage other parts of the system. you need to build firewall between things to stop them from propagating.

I don't think a program should be bigger than possibly 128 kilobytes, possibly 64 kilobytes. It should be possible to understand that program in its entirety.

Hidden state in object so in any object programming language means you can't compose things. Hidden state is a just state effect stopping you to composing things.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joe Armstrong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.