See? Hacking through the night, working 56 hours without sleep, workoholism - not paramount for creating great products.
Joe Armstrong Retweeted Andrea
Yes - happy days. At the time I was working a 6 hour day due to the enlightened Swedish child care policies. Parents of young children are entitled to work 80% of full time - good for creativity and family life. Result 2 kids and a new programming language.
Joe Armstrong added,
Andrea @ silverSpoon
Replying to @ mjamado @ somospostpc
I was talking to @ joeerl a few weeks ago about the time they created Erlang and he mentioned that at that time, he was spending more time at home than ususal because he had small children this gave him time to reason hence creating such a beautiful language 1/2
11:02 AM - 28 Nov 2018