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

[Seif Haridi]

OK OK
I conceed. The book complemented with different short hands-on tutorials
seem to be the current consensus.

--- Seif

Mathias.Picker at virtual-earth.de wrote:

> 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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