Alice Programming System Released

[rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:38:56AM +0100, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> We are happy to announce the first release of the Alice programming
> system:
> 
>         http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/alice/
> 
> Alice is a functional programming language bridging the gap
> between the statically typed, functional world of ML and the
> dynamically typed world of concurrent constraint programming as
> found in Oz. Alice combines the most appreciated features from
> both worlds.

Two things:

On the main page you say it's based on Standard ML, but at
<http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/alice/manual/interop.html> you say it's based
on Mozart.  That's a bit confusing; can you clarify this on the main
page.

I notice that many of the people involved in Mozart-Oz are also involved
in Alice.  I would very much appreciate pointers to information as to
why you all felt this new language was necessary, what reasons a user
might have for switching to Alice, and whether this represents a schism
in the Mozart-Oz community or not.

Thank you.

-Robin

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