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Coders at Work: Reflections on the craft of programmingSeibel: And Erlang was one of those new and useful things you expected them to use? Armstrong: Yes. Absolutely. So what happened was, first of all it was just Prolog. I sort of made a little language and people started using it. And then Robert Virding came along and said, БЂњHey, this looks like fun.БЂ«And heБЂ™d been reading my Prolog and he said, БЂњCan I modify it a bit?БЂ«ThatБЂ™s pretty dangerous because Robert says that and you end up with one comment at the top of the program that says, БЂњJoe thought of this stuff and IБЂ™ve changed a bit,БЂ«and then itБЂ™s completely changed. So Robert and I just rewrote this stuff back and forth and we had great argumentsБЂ”БЂњAhhh, I canБЂ™t read your code, itБЂ™s got blanks after all the commas.БЂ«Then we found somebody inside Ericsson who wanted a new programming language or wanted a better way of programming telephony. We met up with them once a week for about, I canБЂ™t remember, six months, nine months. And the general idea was we would teach them how to program and they would teach us about telephonyБЂ”what the problem was ...» |
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