Mozart Oz...

I shall let it speak for itself: https://mozart.github.io/mozart-v1/...

I've spoken to a couple of therapists and I'm in a better place now, but this is hands down the worst bit of technology I've ever worked with.

There was a course that taught Functional Programming using Oz on edX!! I closed the tab and cleared my history so fast!!

I have never seen anyone claim to use it... It kinda seems like a solution in search of a problem. I mean, if someone does use it, I'd be genuinely curious about it, because so few developers I encounter know it.

There was a guy in my team who boasted about how he finished the whole course using Mozart/Oz! Andhe would sell it!! You know, you can do functional as well as OO programming in it!! :P

I'm aware, my university used it as a means to teach functional programming, rather than say, lisp or a dialect of python or any language that has learning resources. At the time (2006, so even pre clojure) there were no books on it and there weren't these online schools/lectures to learn from.

They had us solve the n-queens problem, recursively, using Oz. It was a living hell because the tutor was only vaguely aware of the language himself and we later found him figuring out how best to teach the course on the Oz mailing list archives where we had begun to ask our own questions, it was quite the revelation to discover our questions were being redirected to the help the list members had previously given our tutor.

Haha!! You all were in the same pickle!! ;)

That looks like it's meant to be an academic proof of concept rather than for the real world.

We used Haskell in 2nd year for intro to functional programming, and most of the class thought that was enough of a mindfuck.

That looks like it's meant to be an academic proof of concept rather than for the real world.

We used Haskell in 2nd year for intro to functional programming, and most of the class thought that was enough of a mindfuck.

My ex at the time, who was three years my junior and also studying in Glasgow was taught Haskell, but you know, the reference compiler was being developed at her university so it made sense.

I don't know if Haskell was being picked up by other universities at the time, but mine didn't.

GHC when I tried it at the time seemed to produce really large binaries for some reason. We used Hugs for the course though.