AW: Mozart/Alice future and GUI building.

[Peter Van Roy]

"Khamenia, Valery" wrote:

> Hi Peter and all,
> 
> > Mozart was never intended to compete head-on with so-called
> > "mainstream" languages and environments (Java, C#, etc.).
> 
> "was" or even "is"? what's the current status?
> 
> for me personally it is very important, because (for industrial
> reasons) I'd rather not proceed with language which is not
> even pre-claimed as "one day it should become a mainstream language".
> 
> Is there any team at all addressing the task
> "to create _mainstream_ functional language based programming environment"?
> 
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> Valery A.Khamenya

I don't understand what you mean by "mainstream".  Here are
some interpretations:
- We definitely want Mozart to be of high quality, so that real
  applications can be written in it.
- We also want Mozart to become more popular.  We wouldn't mind
  if it became as popular as Java or C#, but we are under no
  illusion that this is realistic.
- We will maintain the system and support the user community,
  within the limits of our manpower and other activities,
  because we think it is important.
- As to the duration of this (free) support, it will at least
  last for our current funded projects (say, until the end of 2005).
  Most likely it will be longer.  For example, if Mozart makes any
  inroads as an educational environment (for teaching programming),
  then the support may continue indefinitely.
- Finally, our goal is not to put in all the "bells and whistles" of
  an environment created by a software company.  If you want a full
  IDE with all the bells and whistles, then you may have to put them
  in yourself or find volunteers in the user community.  We will help
  and encourage any volunteers.
Does this answer your questions?  This is how I see things.  It does
not commit the rest of the Mozart consortium.  But I think that the
other partners in the Mozart consortium have similar views.

Peter
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