Rest in peace Joe Armstrong, you will be missed.

Joe Armstrong died today.

He is someone I really looked up to, someone I respect a ton, I think he has been one of the greatest contributers to our field since Alan Turing. His loss is a tremendous blow to software developers everywhere, my heart goes out to his friends and family right now.

Very few developers have the ability to make a dent on our practices. Your the founder of message passing, designer of Erlang, shaped Don Syme's design for F#

Rest in peace my friend, you did great work, you were a true functional programming brother, and you will be missed.