Have we got better at programming things in the last 25 yea… - Joe Armstrong

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

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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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You can't do anything unless you detect the fault.

Your first question must always be: what is the most difficult part of this problem that I am trying to solve and then try and solve that. If you can't solve the most difficult bit, give up! Seek advice, find somebody who can solve it!

If you don't have a book, you don't know how a bloody program work!

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

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