Listened: SE Radio: Joe Armstrong

By: Jeremy W. Sherman. Published: . Categories: listening-notes erlang concurrency.

I listened today to an interview with Joe Armstrong recorded in late 2007. Joe Armstrong created Erlang. This interview took place right as interest in Erlang was rising due to the growth in generally available multicore machines.

In case you’d like to give it a listen as well, this was Software Engineering Radio episode 89.

My takeaways:

From memory, here are my more comprehensive (and correspondingly more rambling) notes: