Parallel programming paper

[Bill Baxter]

Has anyone heard of this?:

Erasmus: A Modular Language for Concurrent Programming
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~grogono/Erasmus/E01.pdf

I haven't really read it all the way through but it was mentioned on 
another list I'm on.  Sounds a lot like Erlang to me at first glance. 
But I don't really know Erlang. :-)

May be interesting food for thought.

--bb