Joe Armstrong has passed away

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Tribute to Joe Armstrong from Mike Williams, Bjarne Däcker and other colleagues at Ericsson

Erlang Solutions were contacted by some of Joe’s former colleagues and friends at Ericsson, and they’ve asked if we could post this for them (it’s been translated from Swedish)… Joseph (Joe) Armstrong has passed away from an illness lasting a few months. He was 68 years of age. Our thoughts are with his wife Helen and his children Thomas and Claire. He grew up in Bournemouth and at an early age became interested in programming and software technology. He studied Theoretical Physics at Univers…