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Let me just say something about pipes. The great UNIX philosophy was: the output of my program should be the input to your program, to compile things together.

— Joe Armstrong

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This is a thing that really scares me, are people developing large applications that they don’t understand.

"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.

If somebody puts a big list of things up, my question is always: what is the most important thing on that list.

Up to now, declarative programming languages such as Prolog or ML have not been used for real-time applications.

This [showing his smartphone] is about a million time more powerful than the computer but the computer was developed on.

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