[erlang-questions] process dictionary, anyone?

[Charles Forsyth]

>    i'm convinced that soon enough a java-like language (javascript?) will
> incorporate erlang-style processes/message passing. and then erlang will, i
> fear, indeed be done.

> C.f. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html
>I wonder what would be easier: to port the Erlang runtime to the JVM,
>or to write a compiler for a Java-like language targeting the beam
>runtime?

that's only if design and notation don't matter, and they do.
to start with, is any form of concurrency compatible with an object-oriented language?

or again: Erlang is a little gem; Java is a dung heap. why hide the one inside the other?
i just don't get it.  it's not even as though (as with C, say) you'd thereby be getting
access to a great set of run-time libraries.