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bmitc on June 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I wrote the BEAM book

Yes, that's explained in the book's title.

rconti on June 5, 2025 [–]

The book's title, "Understanding the Erlang Runtime System", contains 25% of the words represented in the BEAM acronym, "Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine".

bmitc on June 5, 2025 | [–]

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