Joe Armstrong (programmer)

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Joe Armstrong
Armstrong in 2009
Born	(1950-12-27)27 December 1950 Bournemouth, England, UK
Died	20 April 2019(2019-04-20) (aged 68)
Alma mater	University College London, UK; Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation(s)	Computer programmer, professor, author
Known for	Creating the Erlang programming language
Spouse	Helen Taylor
Children	Thomas Armstrong, Claire Armstrong
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Edinburgh Ericsson Computer Science Lab KTH
Website	joearms.github.io

Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.