[Oz] Oz complaints

[Rafa³ Smotrzyk]

I'm currently doing some development in Python. Things I like about it for
my current project are that it
is easily embeddable, has nice object model, offers useful and complex
standard library.

I'm considering porting some of the code to Oz to make some things I
consider this language is designed to.
I don't actually know Oz, but my impression so far is that it's portable and
easily supports rich data structures, objects and
programming methods. I know Oz isn't quite a mainstream language, but it's
looking healthy and sensible
from what I've seen so far.

Basically, I'd be really interested to learn: what _don't_ people like about
Oz?
Every language has things that many people complain about, however
reasonably, or would like to have been different,
and I'd be interested to know what Oz's are so I can get an idea if any are
going to annoy me, rather than me being confused then frustrated then
disappointed about them as I discover them further in.
For instance, I'm sure plenty of people would hate Python's lack of bullet
proof garbage collector, low speed,
, etc. Are there any ways that Oz makes programming slightly more awkward
than people would have liked?

That is the first question. The others are:

What is the speed when dealing with extremely large data sets. Is there some
kind of support for large arrays,
external databases, ODBC, etc. ?

What is the support for COM (Win32). Could I create OLE servers or connect
to COM servers with OZ? Is there
possibility to use Oz as one of the Active Scripting languages?

Where is the common repository of algorithms, contributed modules,
etceteras?

What exactly do you mean when you write about distributed garbage
collection? How stable is it?

And now the most important question: could I recompile Oz with Microsoft
Visual Studio 6, and
use it as embedded scripting language in application written in C++?

TIA
Rafal Smotrzyk


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