oz
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oz
Abbr. for “ounce.”
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Oz
fabulous kingdom over the rainbow. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]
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Oz
(1)An
object-oriented concurrent constraint language from
the University of Saarbrucken. Oz is based on constraint communication, a new form of
asynchronous communication
using logic variables. Partial information about the values
of variables is imposed concurrently and incrementally.
Supports higher order programming and object-orientation
including
multiple inheritance.
ftp:duck.dfki.uni-sb.de/pub/papers.
["Object-Oriented Concurrent Constraint Programming in Oz",
G. Smolka et al].
oz
(2)An old Australian
top-level domain and network which got
incorporated into the current one. The former Australian
domains .oz, .edu and .com are now .oz.au, .edu.au and
.com.au.
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