Joe Armstrong: Sort

Joe Armstrong was British computer scientist. Explore interesting quotes on sort.

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“I think things like PowerPoint have sort of destroyed creativity.”

26 Years with Erlang

“I don't like modules. It's a sort of love/hate relationship. The problem with modules is the classification problem. When you have written a function you don't know in what modules you put it in.”

A Few Improvement to Erlang

“Bad ideas in computer science and anywhere are sticky. If the first idea was a bad idea, then because it works people will sort of repeat it.”

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“How to make a list? Collecting the data, that's the easy bit. Sorting it into categories is slightly more difficult. Shortening the list is the most difficult part. That a really difficult problem.”

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

“I was using Smalltalk and I never actually go through this boundary of sort of simulating the class structure in my head so that I can program itself. It was painful, I used to chose the changelog to find things, I regret you did it.”