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Re:A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler by davydog187 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:12AM (#17672046)
Probably because they predate haskell. In the case of Java, thats not true, but Haskell would have only been 5 years old at the time, and was largely academic.
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Re:A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler by acdha on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:35AM (#17672226)
Not even 5 years old — Java started development in 1991 as Oak so it would have been really early:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_(programming_language)

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