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Why are people just moving the data and not the programs. We could move both of them to some intermediate point in the middle to perform the computation there.

— 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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