> Is there a document anywhere that gives a short description of the language and a reason for looking into it? Not that I know of. And there now seems little

> Is there a document anywhere that gives a short description of the language and a reason for looking into it? Not that I know of. And there now seems little reason for looking into it, except when doing language research. EDIT: The SICP-like textbook is apparently online. It's not short, but FWIW: "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.102.7366&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.102... > The official site is most unwelcoming to a casual reader. Mozart/Oz documentation... sigh. Think: "bad old days"; "just buy the tome textbook"; that textbook being online (discouraging other docs), and then not (so then there's nothing); academic project; majority of users were students taking mandatory CS courses; in European academia; research papers and talk slides as documentation; and now zombie/death. Years ago I ended up generating my own "virtual manual"[1], but the links have rotted since. [1] http://www.vendian.org/oz/wiki/index.cgi?VirtualManual http://www.vendian.org/oz/wiki/index.cgi?VirtualManual But the links are rotted. And it's no longer a wiki, just a snapshot of that page.