"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, the… - Joe Armstrong

"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.

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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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I think we seem to have forgotten that things can be small. This way of decomposing systems into small things that I can reason about.

Erlang is like Meccano. Meccano is very good. You build wonderful things with meccano. C++ is like Lego. Lego is wonderful. But there is any glue. The glue that you want to use to glue Lego and Meccano just does not work.

Bad concurrency model, I think, is something that make a lot of programming artificially difficult.

"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there. - Joe Armstrong

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