[jdp]

There seems to be more than one group trying to associate a language with nicer syntax with Erlang's virtual machine. Another attempt is Reia, a language more inspired by Ruby and Python: http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language

[jcl]

Also, Lisp-Flavored Erlang:

http://metajack.im/2009/01/09/lisp-flavored-erlang/

[davidw]

Reia is pretty interesting because he does some interesting stuff like make objects out of Erlang processes.