Another little-known fact: that JVM that Erlang was originally written on? It was coded by Scott McNealy! It was a side project of his to prove to Bill Joy that he wasn't just a suit.
Many people seem to forget that the J in JVM stands for Java, the term seems to be increasingly misused lately.
(In case anyone isn't sure: Erlang was originally written in Prolog in the 1980s before the JVM even existed.)