Joe Armstrong (programmer)

Armstrong in 2009

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 and attended Winton Secondary Boys' School from 1961 to 1967.

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

References

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