Oz 1.4.0 was released about a month ago at mozart-oz.org but there are as yet few changes evident at the web site.
For example, the documentation still discusses enabling Oz applets for Netscape … with no mention of any other browser.
The Oz team has been working on enhancing Oz as a language for distributed systems. Here is a quote from mozart-oz.org:
The Mozart system provides state-of-the-art support in two areas: open distributed computing and constraint-based inference. Mozart implements Oz, a concurrent object-oriented language with dataflow synchronization. Oz combines concurrent and distributed programming with logical constraint-based inference, making it a unique choice for developing multi-agent systems. Mozart is an ideal platform for both general-purpose distributed applications as well as for hard problems requiring sophisticated optimization and inferencing abilities.
Oz may be best-known through the MIT Press book by Peter van Roy, known on lambda-the-ultimate as CTM. You can find a list of related papers on Oz at http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/Papers/ among other work of his colleagues. If you have Joe Armstrong’s book on Erlang or remember any Prolog, you might like this book on Oz as a multiparadigm language.
The programming interface of Mozart remains Emacs. After installing Oz, the Oz menu on your Emacs toolbar will now include a Distribution Panel in addition to the debugger and profiler.
O’Reilly has a book coming on real-world Haskell: a book on real-world Oz is over-due.
The next major Oz event will be the (eventual) release of Oz 1.5.0 by which time we should have Rebol 3.0 and a new version of dataflow for Rebol from Liquid Steel tools.
