I doubt it (if we're talking about the same thing since I see no mention of SLIME nor distel in the article). SLIME was developed as a replacement for ilisp wh

I doubt it (if we're talking about the same thing since I see no mention of SLIME nor distel in the article). SLIME was developed as a replacement for ilisp which got a little long in the tooth. ilisp was developed for Emacs to get a similar experience as developing on Lisp machines and now we're so far back in the past that I do not think that way of working was inspired by Erlang.