[Oz] Oz vs. Squeak

[Mark Seaborn]

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

> We have an internal developers list with frequent discussions, often
> quite animated.  Would it be a good idea to fuse this list with the
> users list?  I ask both the users and developers.  What do you
> think?

Definitely.  At least make the developers' list public or
publically-readable.  I've already gained a lot of insight into
handling concurrency by learning about Oz's approach, and being able
to read the developers' musings would be very interesting, as well as
giving an idea of what is currently possible with the Mozart
implementation.


[snip]
> You are right, but there are some very nice features anyway in the
> development environment:
> 
> 1. Truly first-class software components, called 'functors'.  They 
>    have lots of advantages.  For example, they are linked dynamically
>    by default, giving fast system startup times.

Have you looked at the PLT Units module system, by the way?  Oz
doesn't seem to provide parametric modules as PLT Units does.  Maybe
I'm wrong on this though; Oz's ability to use different module
managers adds some subtleties to this issue.

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