Your comment makes it sound like you think Joe Armstrong is some random blogger. He created the Erlang programming language which was massively influential in t

Your comment makes it sound like you think Joe Armstrong is some random blogger. He created the Erlang programming language which was massively influential in the software industry, even though it's not one of the usual "mainstream" languages. I chatted with him in a bar at MIT. I suspect your ideas about what he looks and sounds like in person wouldn't have survived a meeting with him. From what I can tell, his attitudes to these subjects were strongly rooted in pragmatism. He was dealing with and finding ways to solve real-world issues in large-scale distributed telecom systems. The solutions he came up with are still used in many large-scale distributed systems today.