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According to Wikipedia, work on BEAM started in 1992. Still earlier than Java. LFE appeared in 2008, so it's newer than Scala.
by dozzie 10y ago
According to Wikipedia, work on BEAM started in 1992. Still earlier than Java.
LFE appeared in 2008, so it's newer than Scala.
- strmpnk 10y agoBEAM was just one of a series of virtual machines that implement the Erlang language, so it's not really fair to compare it to Java (just as HotSpot was built a few years after Java).
- eggy 10y agoErlang was released into the 'wild' in 1988, but it had a Prolog-based VM, or JAM, Joe's Abstract Machine before the BEAM.[0] The BEAM VM was being worked on in 1992 a year after work on Java in 1991. [0] http://erlang.org/faq/implementations.html http://erlang.org/faq/implementations.html
- dozzie 10y ago> The BEAM VM was being worked on in 1992 a year after work on Java in 1991. You're right. What I meant by "still earlier than Java" is "still earlier than first public Java version", so there was no possibility to borrow anything.