On 14/04/11 16:29, Torsten Anders 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?
Yes. It is supposed to be very close to Scala. It will do type
reconstruction like Scala, but it will compile to the Mozart emulator
(the Ozma compiler reuses the backend of the Oz compiler).
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?
I don't know of any such research, I only have anecdotal evidence.
Peter
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