Wasn't functional programming with a Mozart/OZ Engine basically tried with AliceML: http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/ http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/

Wasn't functional programming with a Mozart/OZ Engine basically tried with AliceML: http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/ http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/ I'm not sure syntax is the main reason for slow uptake of Mozart. In fact the syntax can offer some advantages. See this post by pvr about a tail recursive append without helper functions: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/755#comment-7056 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/755#comment-7056 Chris Rathman followed up with an AliceML version and compares the syntax: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/755#comment-7057 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/755#comment-7057 I like Mozart/Oz but the two main things missing for me are unicode support and 64 bit support.