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I'm not sure his native language is english; he may be swedish.
by cbr 15y ago
I'm not sure his native language is english; he may be swedish.
- chops 15y agoI'm almost positive he's British, or at least he has a British accent of sorts: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Erlang-Joe-Armstrong http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Erlang-Joe-Armstrong Also, regarding his writing, he did at least preface his post with This is a brain-dump-stream-of-consciousness-thing. Despite being a stickler for grammar rules myself, if I don't proofread my writing, there are bound to be plenty of grammar errors and typos that pop up, especially if my brain is really flying with ideas and my fingers are struggling to keep up. His post had that feel to it as well. A bunch of ideas, semi-related, bouncing ideas around haphazardly.
- zwischenzug 15y agoI went to a talk he gave a year or so ago on a set of libraries he'd written. He was just like that in person. A complete mad professor. He showed us his early design documents of erlang, including original compile times and performance measurements. Awesome stuff. He does sound British, but there's a certain foreign-ness about the way he speaks (probably picked up from Ericsson).
- matthiasl 15y agoHis native language is English. He's just sloppy. He's been in Sweden for decades and speaks Swedish with a typical English accent. Source 1: My opinion. I've met him many times. Source 2: His thesis states that he started at the Ericsson CSLab in 1985. CSLab was in Sweden. Source 3: This (http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Armstrong/bits.ps http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Armstrong/bits.ps) set of slides states that he has a B.Sc. from UCL (London) from 1972 and started at CSLAb in 1986 (not 1985, seems the dates are a bit fluid).