At the age of 68 Joe Armstrong (), one of the creators of the functional programming language , also known for his developments in the field of fault-tolerant distributed systems. The Erlang language was created in 1986 in the Ericsson laboratory, together with Robert Virding and Mike Williams, and in 1998 it was transferred to the category of open projects. With its original focus on building parallel real-time query processing applications, the language has become widespread in areas such as telecommunications, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony, and instant messaging.
Source: opennet.ru