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I love that Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis is on this list. I have it on my reading list for junior engineers. It's incredibly accessible and the mental model is ve

• criddell 7y ago
  http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
• privong 7y ago
  Here's a link for those who are interested in reading it: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.s... This was archived from http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf which now returns a 404 Error.
• saberience 7y ago
  Yeah, how accessible is a 295 page PhD thesis where half of it is Erlang specific for junior engineers? Unless you want them to quit their jobs, or complain to their friends what a crap manager they have.
  • numbsafari 7y ago
    Relax. Nobody said it was a mandatory reading list. There are no tests. It's a suggested reading list that I pull from depending on context. Joe's thesis is incredibly accessible. At least two of my items were on Alan Kay's list. The other being "The Mythical Man Month", especially the edition with the "No Silver Bullet" article, which a depressing number of people in our industry seem to not have read. So I don't feel like I'm too far off the mark.
• tseabra 7y ago
  Would you mind sharing that list? :)