The problem is more than just the should do when it works, … - Joe Armstrong

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The problem is more than just the should do when it works, it should also say what it should do in presence of failures that you could reasonably predict.

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

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