I don’t remember how I found it, but after flipping through a few pages of Programming Erlang, Software for a Concurrent World, I was hooked. Through this book, and others I learned how to code and got a job at a big tech company at age 37. Joe’s wit and enthusiasm for computer science was contagious. He undoubtedly inspired thousands of people to learn computer science. Through his book and tech talks, he also made functional programming far more accessible than other resources. The little schemer, I’m looking at you :-). Joe will be missed. His family should be immensely proud of the contribution he made to computer science.