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Joe Armstrong on Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

Code Sync · Talk · YouTube title: Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018
Why it's here

HN people recommend it as a reading list of historical CS ideas worth knowing, and as a favorite among Armstrong's talks, especially after his death.

What it covers

Erlang co-creator Joe Armstrong's Code BEAM SF 2018 keynote revisits good ideas from the history of computing that were dropped, and asks which should be revived. It also touches on Erlang and Elixir.