Python not a Very High-Level Language?

[Denys Duchier]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

> If you've got the time, investigate Oz/Mozart for us!
> 
>     http://www.mozart-oz.org/
> 
> If I had the time, that's the one I'd check out next, because it's the one
> I'm most prejudiced against <no wink>:  it seeks to combine all of logic,
> constraint-based, functional, and OO approaches on a highly concurrent
> substrate.  When I picture those all together, I can only conjure up visions
> of extreme pain; but browsing thru the intro material didn't hurt at all,
> and someone here last year (Boris?) spoke highly of it.  If not truly
> innovative, it's at least bold <wink>.

Hi Tim! Thanks for the publicity (your check is in the mail, minus the
penalty for that "extreme pain" bit :-) Mozart is getting quite a bit
of attention these days (finally!), in part because it is the most
advanced language for concurrent constraint programming, but
increasingly also for its support for concurrent as well as
transparently distributed computations.

As one of mozart's designers and implementors, as well as a python fan
since the early days, I'd be happy to field questions, if there is any
interest.

Cheers,

-- 
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