[Mozart Oz Users] Mozart documentation -- proposal to simplifyit

[Serge Stinckwich]

At Tue, 06 Mar 2001 20:30:10 +0100,
Torbjörn Lager wrote:
> 
> 
> I personally don't think the Tutorial is a very good entry point to Oz.
> It is too long already, and contains a lot of material that is difficult
> for many readers/students, and perhaps also some bad advice (like the
> use of the dis-construct which could scare away a bench-marking Prolog
> programmer very quickly -- almost did for me until I realized 'choice'
> was a much better choice...). Also, since it is far from finished, it
> can only become longer, and then it will soon start to 'compete' with
> the Models book.
> 
> I would like to suggest another approach. Oz is a multi-paradigm
> programming language, so there should really be multiple entry points
> into Oz. (Really, Oz is unique in that there *can* be multiple entry
> points!) These could be small documents, around 20-30 pages each: 
> 
> - Oz for Java programmers
> - Oz for Prolog programmers
> - Oz for Python programmers
> - Oz for Smalltalk programmers
> - Oz for Ruby programmers
> - Oz for Lisp programmers
> - 'Oz for Dummies' 
> - etc.

If we would like to expand the use of Oz, i think that we need
something like the Zope community (<http://www.zope.org/>). There is
some "official" book (the Zope book : <http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/>) and lots
of HOW-TOs (<http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To>) written by the
users community. The HOW-TOs are very small and cover a specific issue of the system.

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