joe armstrong

In One Pass Real-Time Generational Mark-Sweep Garbage Collection Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding talk about a very simple garbage collector used in Erlang*.

The latest entry has Joe Armstrong discussing Erlang in the ongoing series of interviews with PL designers (The A-Z of Programming Languages).

Two related things caught my eye. The first is the obvious truism about language features:

A History of Erlang and the accompanying Presentation Slides by Joe Armstrong are a must read for anyone interested in PL history.