The API we use in programming languages are not adequate fo… - Joe Armstrong

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The API we use in programming languages are not adequate for describing the order in which we can perform the API calls. They are basically useless.

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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.

I do not think we can build systems that are large with large components.

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 API we use in programming languages are not adequate for describing the order in which we can perform the API calls. They are basically useless. - Joe Armstrong

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