Scheme Workshop 2003

The presentations of the 2003 Scheme Workshop were quite interesting.  The
proceedings are now available at:

   http://www.cs.utah.edu/techreports/2003/pdf/UUCS-03-023.pdf
   http://www.cs.utah.edu/techreports/2003/pdf/UUCS-03-023.ps.gz

Perhaps the best thing to come out of the standardization panel was the
decision to have the strategy committee (Alan Bawden, Will Clinger, Richard
Kelsey, Marc Feeley & Mitch Wand) appoint a board of editors (5) and steering
committee (3) that will be announced in 2 weeks to continue the now stagnant
standardization process.  And the most sound advice mentioned, IMO, during the
process was that of Shriram Krishnamurthi [SK] and Matthias Felleisen [MF]:

   SK: A recommendation: Every change should take into consideration the
   ability to have reasonable static type checking systems.

   MF: I would like to an operational semantics for Scheme. We are capable and
   should hold ourselves to a high standard.

Draft Charter for Scheme Standardization:

   http://scheme2003.flux.utah.edu/draft-charter.pdf

Some notes on the workshop can be found here (thanks to Jay McCarthy):

   http://www.makeoutcity.com/Downloads/2003-SchemeWorkshop.html

-d