[Oz] Future of Oz

[Alexander I. Zhezherun]

From: Peter Van Roy <pvr at info.ucl.ac.be>

Good news.

But what about C/C++ to Oz FFI ?


Thanks,
Alexander

> Well, from my point of view, the answer is simple: in one year, Oz will be
> around, alive and kicking, with serious enhancements.  For example, just
> to mention three (the other Consortium members can complement this):
> - SICS is working hard on a new network layer that will allow
much-improved
>   behavior: higher performance, better sharing of network bandwidth,
better
>   scalability, etc.
> - UdS has a prototype of a new graphics subsystem (Gtk) that can supersede
>   Tk.  Another candidate for this is [incr tcl], which has already been
used
>   in an expert system done at CLAES in Egypt.  And we at UCL will put
something
>   like QTk on top of whichever one is chosen.
> - UCL has just released (in MOGUL) a beta version of a GlobalStore
abstraction,
>   which does active fault tolerance for Oz objects.
>
> Regarding financing, you would have to ask the Consortium members.
> For UCL, there is financing until 2002 and several projects 'in the works'
> to continue beyond that.  I'm sure that the same is true for the other
> members.
>
> Regarding the Oz with SML syntax: that is a research topic being studied
> at UdS; they can give you more information.
>
> I hope this helps answer your question,
>
> Peter


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