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I'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/interv
by chops 15y ago
I'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).