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Excerpts from Coders at Work: Joe Armstrong Interview (2013)
I've been reading Peter Seibel's excellent book, Coders at Work, which is a transcription of interviews with a dozen or so very well known and...
Published: Mon 29 April 2013 By C. Titus Brown I've been reading Peter Seibel's excellent book, Coders at Work, which is a transcription of interviews with a dozen or so very well known and impactful programmers. CTB: I think it's fascinating to interpret this statement in light of Erlang's pattern of small components, working in parallel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language). Then there's -- I don't know if I read it somewhere or if I invented it myself -- Joe's Law of Debugging, which is that all errors will be plus/minus three statements of the place you last changed the program.
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