Erlang port to the Java Virtual Machine

[Christian S]

On 5/30/06, Andrew Lentvorski <bsder@REDACTED> wrote:
> Has anyone done any work on porting Erlang to the JVM?
>
> I know that the JVM is less than ideal (lack of tagged data types, lack
> of tail recursion, problems with dispatch).  However, the JVM has some
> advantages in terms of deployment, external OS control, and GUI
> integration that would be useful even in a fully interpreted mode.

I'm just curious but... Which advantages exactly?