[erlang-questions] A historical questions about binaries

[Dmitrii Dimandt]

Indeed : ))))


> This is scary. Erlang is not quite ancient just yet and the mysteries about its beginnings have already started to fade from human memory.
> 
> Claes Wikstrom wrote:
>> On 05/07/2010 01:43 PM, Dmitrii Dimandt wrote:
>>> A friend of mine is digging deep into Erlang history and here's one question he hasn't found an answer to:
>>> 
>>> At what time were binaries introduced in Erlang? I know that bit syntax appeared in 1999, it says so in the docs :) Were binaries introduced earlier? And what did they look like back then?
>> 
>> Binaries came a bit earlier, I introduced them during an effort to separate the emulator proper
>> from OS calls and then in particular the file system calls that were used to load code.
>> Thus came drivers, the whole driver arch, and in particular the file driver that replied with binaries
>> that could be fed to the code loading BIFs.
>> 
>> My guess would be 1995-1996
>> 
>> /klacke



Thank you wall for your replies!