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In a file system, if a program opens a file and does something and then crashes, the operating system closes the file for you. It's not still open an… - Joe Armstrong
" "In a file system, if a program opens a file and does something and then crashes, the operating system closes the file for you. It's not still open and then you can use it again. So I thought to myself, well, a call is like a file. So, what happens if you do this hook, you crash the program. Somebody else will watch (the operating system) will watch) and it will close the call just like closing a file. That was the origin of this thing that's now I call Let It Crash.
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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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In Erlang, F(G(X)) is used for small steps. Pipes are used for big steps. The big steps semantics is processes. It's messages between processes. Processes are used for big computation. When you got F(G(X)) is a small step, and we map small steps on the same core. We map big steps on processes. Processes map on multi-core. The system just does it for you.
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