Software Engineering discussion

I learned about Erlang from our "7 weeks" book selection, and I has many interesting ideas, even if it never has gone mainstream. So, it was also interesting to learn more about the creator.

Perhaps one of the most valuable pieces of advice is "Spend 20 percent of your time learning stuff-- because it's compounded." I knew someone who always set aside friday afternoons at work to do this (so at least 10 percent.)

His obesrvations about core growth and the demands on concurrency solutions are also insightful.

I think Joe is very interesting and honest guy who is able to put different concepts in a simple from. After reading this interview, I got a better understanding of an idea using stateless variables and functional paradigm as a whole. Unfortunately I don’t remember much about Erlang language – it was probably one of the languages in “7 languages” that I still haven’t done any programming exercises for. I like the idea of writing documentation to better understand own code; unfortunately, I don’t do this enough even after learning UML in my software design course. This may actually help to learn how to explain other people how programs work.