Joe Armstrong (programmer)

British computer scientist (1950-2019)

Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a British computer scientist. He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language. He was given a Ph.D. in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 2004. He later became a professor at KTH from 2014. He was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire.

Armstrong in 2009

Armstrong died on 20 April 2019, at the age of 68.[1]

References

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  1. Pavlić, Matija (22 April 2019). "Preminuo Joe Armstrong, jedan od autora programskog jezika Erlang". BUG (in Croatian). Retrieved 22 April 2019.