[Mozart Oz Users] Mozart documentation -- proposal to simplifyi t

[Mathias.Picker at virtual-earth.de]

On  6 Mar, Seif Haridi wrote:
> I think your proposal is quite nice.
> I also think that the book we are writing is not a replacement for
> tutorials.
> While the book is using Oz and Mozart I do not see the book as a
> Mozart book. My goal is the book succeeds if it is not viewed as a
> specific language book. Tutorials should concentrate on the language
> and the system. [...]

Seif,

from what I read up to now, the book is so deeply interwoven with Oz
that it still serves as a very good tutorial, even if it is targeted at
a different, language-neutral audience and succeeds in this goal.

No other language I know of offers quite so many different styles to
express a certain algorithm, to solve a specific problem, and as
programmer I'm constantly asking myself: what to use when. I feel that
the book is answering this question quite satisfactory and is a
must-read for most anyone starting to program in oz. 

So, in short, I would get rid of the tutorial in favor of this book,
too, and supplant it with Per's nice idea of using something like the
QTk Prototyper as a sort of hands-on, interactive tutorial.


/ Mathias
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