When I write code I always think somebody else must have wr… - Joe Armstrong

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When I write code I always think somebody else must have written this before me and I can't find it. Why do we write code if we can't find it with Google. If we can't really find it, then we can write the code. Lot of the code is pain in the arse, it's just boring stuff.

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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 have to think about how we can make systems out of very small components with very strictly defined protocols between them.

The Middle man is the thing that imposed Erlang only in the Erlang world. If people try to talk to each other, the complexity of the program is O(N²). But, if we put middle men here, this turns the complexity to O(N).

Why do the designers to this programming language want correctness? It's because, if you write program in erlang, and it turns to be incorrect, I got the blame. But if it works you got the credit.

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