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Ralph Johnson, Joe Armstrong on the Future of Parallel Programming

• hvs 16y ago
  Ralph Johnson's senior project class at UIUC was one of the more useful (and most practical) that I took while I was there (in the late 90's). He also had an amusingly denigrating take on his contributions to the "Design Patterns" book.
  • gruseom 16y ago
    What was the "amusingly denigrating take"? I've always wondered what a smart guy like him was doing in a place like that.
    • hvs 16y ago
      He would occasionally mention how some people wanted to give him money for using his name on a book. As to a "place like that," I'm not sure what you are referring to, but UIUC is one of the top CS schools in the country. I went to school with some of the smartest guys I've ever known, and many of them have gone on to start some of the most well-known companies in the tech industry (PayPal, Yelp, etc). The school is a little overly research focused -- at the expense of its undergraduates -- but I wouldn't trade my time there for anything.
      • gruseom 16y ago
        I was jokingly referring to the overrated GoF design patterns book.
        • hvs 16y ago
          Ah. I think he felt it was kind of overrated as well, hence the denigrating take on his contribution. I may be wrong, though, since this was over 12 years ago.
• cageface 16y ago
  Joe Armstrong: Shared memory is intrinsically evil, because it prevents fault tolerance, it produces a single point where you will fail and they limit performance. I think this point isn't made often enough in recent discussions of parallelism.