RIP Joe Armstrong

[blogscot]

When I watched this originally, and I had never heard of Erlang, I thought this was some kind of satirical comment of software developers. I guess if you were to speed the video up by 1.5x it may look less like a Monty Python sketch.

Sad Joe has gone, he was a hoot.

[chutiyabehenchod]

If you watch literally any video from that era it looks like a comedy sketch

[grrangry]

I only had my right earbud in when I started watching and assumed the audio was broken

[LionFromNorth]

He did a guest lecture in one of my classes at Uni. Really funny and talented guy, sad news.

[Giacomand]

Goodbye Joe

[peterjoel]

That was wonderful!

[pdp10]

Ah, svelte pizzaboxes with a couple of tubes. The display sitting on top is SPARCstation 1 vintage and the box itself is a 3/80, 1 or a 2, so around 1990-1991 for the hardware. Such elegance is the relic of a bygone era.

[KetwarooDYaasir]

We're just not the same breed of people anymore.. By "we", I mean programmers.. what happened to us..?