[Mozart Oz Users] Mozart documentation -- proposal to simplify it

[Fred Mesnard]

Peter Van Roy a écrit :

> Dear developers,
>
> In order to simplify the maintenance of the documentation and to avoid
> duplications (which can easily be incoherent), I propose to replace the
> following documents:
>
>   Tutorial of Oz
>   Distributed Programming in Mozart
>   The Oz Notation
>   Loop Support
>   Limitations
>
> by the draft Models book on the Mozart site.

I am rather happy with the tutorial because it's a small
document I can give to my students (as a paper version).
Moreover, it is the right thing for an introductory course
of 25 hours (I'll try to add a bit of distributed programming).

On the other hand, I had a look on the (already big) book,
which I found fascinating at first sight. I'll plan to propose to
my colleagues to use Oz as the main language for
teaching those programming concepts, rather
than switching to different languages, which
implies a big waste of time fighting with different
syntax. Of course, I'm not sure that they'll agree.
By the way, we have many Macs here.  Do you
plan to port Mozart on Mac Os X ?

My conclusion: anyway, it could be a good idea
to keep a small informal document to grasp
the multi-essence of Oz !

Fred
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