Joe Armstrong (computer scientist)

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Joseph "Joe" Leslie Armstrong (*  27. December 1950 in Bournemouth , England ; † 20th April 2019 ) was a British computer scientist with work area fault-tolerant , distributed systems . He was the inventor of the Erlang programming language .

biography

Armstrong began programming Fortran on a mainframe in his school district when he was 17 . That experience helped him while studying physics at University College London , and he began debugging his fellow students' programs in exchange for beer . He ran out of money while doing research for his doctoral thesis in high energy physics. However, he received a job offer for the Department of Machine Intelligence in Edinburgh , where he became an assistant to Donald Michie . However, the British government cut the funding after Armstrong had worked there for a year. Armstrong then went to Sweden , where he worked as a programmer for EISCAT , Swedish Space Corporation and then Ericsson . While working for the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, he developed Erlang in 1986. Since 2014 he has been a professor at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm.

Works

  • Joe Armstrong: Making reliable systems in the presence of software errors . 2003 ( erlang.org [PDF; 839 kB ] Dissertation, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Final version (with corrections) - last update 20 November 2003).
  • Joe Armstrong: Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World . 2nd Edition. Pragmatic Bookshelf, Frisco, TX 2013, ISBN 978-1-937785-53-6 .

literature

  • Peter Seibel: Coders at Work: Important programmers and their success stories . mitp, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8266-9103-4 , Chapter 6: Joe Armstrong , pp. 193–223 (English: Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming . 2009. Translated by Reinhard Engel).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Borchers: Hello Mike, hello Robert, goodbye Joe: To the death of Joe Armstrong. In: heise.de. April 22, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Coders at Work: Joe Armstrong. In: codersatwork.com. Retrieved October 24, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Coders At Work, see #Literature .
  4. ↑ A History of Erlang. (PDF; 436 kB) (No longer available online.) In: chalmers.se. Archived from the original on September 4, 2009 ; accessed on October 24, 2009 .
  5. ^ Joe Armstrong - new adjunct professor. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; accessed on November 23, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Armstrong, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armstrong, Joseph Leslie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bournemouth
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2019