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Let's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt

Erlang Solutions · 13.3K views · 2019-02-19 · 1:06:45

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Overview

A panel with Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong and Carl Hewitt, hosted by Francesco Cesarini, on the history and future of concurrency. The three creators of CSP, Erlang and the actor model discuss their differing approaches.

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HN recommends it for getting the inventors of major concurrency models together, disagreements included.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2019–2026

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Distributed systemsFunctional programmingComputability & complexity theory
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actor modelcsperlangtony hoarejoe armstrongcarl hewitt

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coolKid721 · 2025-04 · Strong recommendation

Watch the guy who came up with Erlang, the Actor model and CSP discuss it: [VIDEO] One of my favorite videos on youtube.

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lokelow · 2026-03 · Recommendation

I was introduced to him pretty late in the game, in this interview where he and Joe Armstrong and Carl Hewitt talked concurrency! It was interesting hearing them discuss their different thoughts and approaches [VIDEO]

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apoorvgarg · 2019-04 · Recommendation

[VIDEO] This recent panel (Armstrong, Hewitt and Hoare) discussion on concurrency was the first time I got to know about him and it gave me a lot of food for thought.

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