The Mozart Programming System is a multiplatform implementation of the Oz programming language

Oz (programming language)

Oz is a multiparadigm programming language, developed in the Programming Systems Lab at Université catholique de Louvain, for programming language education. It has a canonical textbook: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming....

 developed by an international group, the Mozart Consortium, which originally consisted of Saarland University

Saarland University

Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Swedish Institute of Computer Science

The Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SICS, is an independent non-profit research organization with a research focus on applied computer science. The institute carries out research in a number of areas, including networked embedded systems, future Internet technologies, large scale...

, and the Université catholique de Louvain

Université catholique de Louvain

The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels...

.

Mozart excels in creating distributed

Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...

, concurrent applications, because it makes a network fully transparent. It supports GUI applications through Tcl/Tk integration. Because it runs applications in a virtual machine

Virtual machine

A virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system". Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or both together.-VM Definitions:A virtual machine is a software...

, applications can be developed once and run on many different platforms.

See also

• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
  Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
  Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming is a textbook published in 2004 about general computer programming concepts from MIT Press written by Université catholique de Louvain professor Peter Van Roy and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden professor Seif Haridi.Using a carefully...
  
  – a book which uses Oz and the Mozart Programming System for its examples
• Alice
  Alice (programming language)
  Alice ML is a functional programming language designed by the at Saarland University. It is a dialect of Standard ML, augmented with support for lazy evaluation, concurrency and constraint programming.-Overview:Alice extends Standard ML in a number of ways that distinguish it from its predecessor...
  
  – a concurrent functional constraint programming language early versions of which ran on the Mozart/Oz virtual machine, allowing interfacing between Alice and Oz code

External links

• The Mozart Programming System
• QTk for Mozart GUIs