I had the privilege to hang out with him at Abstractions this fall, where he gave the keynote. He was just holding court in the commons, shooting the breeze abo

I had the privilege to hang out with him at Abstractions this fall, where he gave the keynote. He was just holding court in the commons, shooting the breeze about halfwit management, project estimation, Jira tickets, and everything that hasn't changed since Brooks. Then he asked which session we were going to next, so we all hit one about concurrency issues. It was jammed and came in late to stand in the back. The presenter bemoaned locking and inconsistency and got to solutions. He started with a slide on immutability and lightweight functional actors in Erlang, having solved it 30 years ago, and pointed out Joe, who got a roomful of cheers and laughs and validation for his work, in person. It was all very human. History Bonus - Armstrong chatting with Stallman: http://imgur.com/a/ETkhZ http://imgur.com/a/ETkhZ