Hi all, If we wish to build support for the language I think we should try many different ways. This suggestion might sound a bit far out, controversial with a splash of activism thrown in. Just what every University Professor ordered.
Mozart Oz I believe is the only language that has the ability to easily implement the software proposed by the movement called the venus project (http://thevenusproject.com/), This movement has a following (last counted) 500 000 people. They are actively engaging the scientific community assisting them with projects by donating spare CPU cycles to BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) They have radio shows and have regular (large) meetings around the world. They have created windowfarms.org on the whole they seem a lively bunch. The software they wish to create is revolutionary and requires the greatest minds to build. A very good intro is this movie http://www.youtube.com/v/4Z9WVZddH9w?autoplay=1&rel=0&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer be warned it is over 2 hours long. I believe this community will rally behind a programming language with patches and bit rot fixes if the language forms the foundation of of their resource based economy. If we build a prototype and that gets successfully rolled out and used by the community, we could send a call for patches signal out to this community. I believe they would respond. Kind regards Stewart _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
