Defensive programming in C, is only necessary because you h… - Joe Armstrong

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Defensive programming in C, is only necessary because you have only have a single thread of computation. If you have a sequential language and it crashes, you lost everything.

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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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The different ways of hiding the state are the things that different functional programming languages offer. In Haskell they call it monads, in Erlang they call it processes.

I think we need to start describing configuration languages that describe how the thing is built and configured.

Composing computation. Why do we do compose computation? Because We want to make reusable things out of small things. We take small things to make bigger things.

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