I’ve just been watching a few videos of Joe Armstrong lectures. He seems to have been quite an intriguing guy. I’m curious if there are any biographies written about him or histories of Erlang with a sort of personal slant. A quick search on Amazon didn’t turn up any obvious matches.
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My favorite is this one:
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Joe Armstrong’s doctoral thesis is quite approachable and includes great background on the design constraints and tradeoffs in building Erlang. http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/coursework/cosc461/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
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You might also like this thread:
And I highly recommend his book, Programming Erlang 
A few of us started a book club on Devtalk and it will give you an idea what we think of it - sounds like just what you’re looking for tbh 
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@maz – that was the first one I watched. Very entertaining and informative. Reminded me of all the best professors and mentors I’ve had over the years.
@crova – so nice that it’s still up. Thanks!
@gregvaughn – thanks for the link. I suspect we might have different definitions of approachable but I’m going to give it a go.
@astonj – thanks for pointing me there. Will check out the book as well.
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