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Erlang 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 i

by eggy 10y ago

Erlang 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.