"Helping your non-technical neighbor. Tell them it's not your fault. Tell them it's crap software and I don't understand this crap."
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Joe Armstrong (programmer)
Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 β 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems.
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