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You don't want your fault creep into the system and damage other parts of the system. you need to build firewall between things to stop them from propagating.
— Joe Armstrong (programmer)
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You don't want your fault creep into the system and damage other parts of the system. you need to build firewall between things to stop them from propagating." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Joe Armstrong (programmer)
Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems.
About Joe Armstrong (programmer)
Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems.
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