> The Erlang VM is written in C: It has been written _once_ in C. That does not mean that re-implementing it in C again would be a good idea or would get you

> The Erlang VM is written in C: It has been written _once_ in C. That does not mean that re-implementing it in C again would be a good idea or would get you the same set of benefits as the existing Erlang VM and its associated libraries. Just because one particular team has accomplished a task in C does not mean that any random collection of C coders have the skill or experience to do the same. (A pedantic point perhaps, but the quote you reference said _reproduce_..._