Russ Abbott wrote:
Also, it seems to me that if the notion of the essence of Oz as described below is right, that should be the primary emphasis in explaining Oz. But it doesn't seem to be. I had to work it out for myself. I do sense a division in the Oz community. One group is focused on Oz as a constraint/logic language. Another is focused on Oz as a platform for explicating programming languages in general. Still another is focused on Oz as a language for distributed programming.
It's no division, in fact. Oz is a true multiparadigm language, where all those things fit together. I don't know any other example of such a succesful integration, except Alice (an ML dialect with concurrency, constraints, distribution, etc.) But both Oz and Alice are born in the same brain (Gert Smolka's), so that's no accident :-)
Cheers, raph _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
