Editing Oz (programming language) (section)

{{Short description|Multiparadigm programming language}}
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{{Infobox programming language
|name = Oz
|logo =
|paradigm = [[multi-paradigm programming language|multi-paradigm]]: [[logic programming|logic]], [[functional programming|functional]], [[imperative programming|imperative]], [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]], [[constraint programming|constraint]], [[distributed programming|distributed]], [[concurrent programming language|concurrent]]
|year = 1991
|designer = Gert Smolka, his students
|developer = Mozart Consortium
|released = {{Start date and age|1991}}
|latest release version = Oz 1.4.0 (final), Mozart 2.0.1
|latest release date = {{Start date and age|2018|09|05|df=yes}}
|typing = [[dynamic typing|dynamic]]
|implementations = Mozart Programming System
|license = [[MIT License|MIT X11]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mozart.github.io/license-info/ |title=Mozart Oz License Info |date=16 January 2014 |access-date=16 January 2014}}</ref>
|dialects = Oz, Mozart
|influenced by = [[Erlang (programming language)|Erlang]], [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]], [[Prolog]]
|influenced = [[Alice (programming language)|Alice]], [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]]
|website = {{URL|mozart.github.io}}
}}

'''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]].

Oz was first designed by Gert Smolka and his students in 1991.  In 1996, development of Oz continued in cooperation with the research group of Seif Haridi and Peter Van Roy at the [[Swedish Institute of Computer Science]].  Since 1999, Oz has been continually developed by an international group, the Mozart Consortium, which originally consisted of [[Saarland University]], the [[Swedish Institute of Computer Science]], and the [[Université catholique de Louvain]].  In 2005, the responsibility for managing Mozart development was transferred to a core group, the Mozart Board, with the express purpose of opening Mozart development to a larger community.

The Mozart Programming System is the primary implementation of Oz. It is released with an [[open source license]] by the Mozart Consortium.  Mozart has been ported to [[Unix]], [[FreeBSD]], [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], and [[macOS]].