A technology that nobody use, just dies. - Joe Armstrong

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A technology that nobody use, just dies.

Joe Armstrong

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About Joe Armstrong

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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What's legacy code? That's dead programmers stuff, not only there are no comment in it, you can't ask people because they are dead. It written in languages that nobody understand, there is no specification and yet it works beautifully!

We wanted to build big distributed systems, fault tolerant systems. The sort of systems that everybody wants to build today. It's not just about telecom. At the time it was just about telecom but now, it's not just about telecom. Virtually, every big systems you want to build has to do these things. You want to connect millions of people and you don't want if the system fail in anyway, you don't want these individual transaction to be broken. We started to working on that, way back. That sort of way we got Erlang.

Have we got better at programming things in the last 25 years? I think the answer would be no. They've been small improvements.