On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Torsten Anders < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2011, at 14:16, Peter Van Roy wrote: > > we now have a master's student working on a new front-end for > > Mozart. It will implement a new language called Ozma that is a > > conservative extension of Scala implemented on top of the Mozart > > emulator. You should know that Scala is making a lot of waves in the > > Java community since it's easy to learn for Java programmers and more > > powerful. Ozma will add all the expressiveness of Oz to Scala, like > > declarative dataflow concurrency, lazy dataflow concurrency, and > > multiagent dataflow programming. Ozma will bring the slogan "functional > > patterns are concurrency patterns" to Scala programmers. > > > Is Ozma statically typed, as Scala? > > Interesting that syntax has such an impact. Is there some research that > confirms that the issue is really the syntax and not the programming > concepts? > Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this. Kudos to those who want to spread the wonderful concepts of Oz. But I also feel that a lot of the power of the language comes from its syntax. I am amazed that people are more allergic to a foreign syntax than to foreign computational paradigms. - Lyle
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