<p>I think Beam is the correct name of the current implementation of the Erlang VM. And there are no other complete and in practice useful EVMs that I know of.</p>
<p>My experience is that starting with talking about Beam will lead to confusion if you are not talking to experienced Erlangers.</p>
<p>The name of the executable is beam or beam.smp<br>
So if you are talkin about what you can observe with top, ps etc. Beam is <br>
the right thing.</p>
<p>/Kenneth<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 6, 2014 5:23 PM, "Björn-Egil Dahlberg" <<a href="mailto:egil@erlang.org">egil@erlang.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 2014-03-06 17:17, Richard Jones wrote:<br>
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Java, Scala & Clojure are all JVM languages / they all run on the JVM.<br>
<br>
Erlang, LFE & Elixir all run on the:<br>
<br>
- EVM<br>
- BEAM<br>
- Erlang VM<br>
- Other (please specify)<br>
<br>
<br>
I started saying EVM, because it has VM in it and sounds modern and trendy.<br>
BEAM is a bit abstract.<br>
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BEAM is the correct one.<br>
<br>
EVM and Erlang VM is used when people don't understand what we talk about. =)<br>
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RJ<br>
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