Greets, The Lucy Book Club reached a milestone at our meeting this past Tuesday: we've made it all the way through the book we set out to read, Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition by Michael L. Scott.
PLP3 is over 800 pages long and contains some pretty challenging material, and I think our group of regulars should feel pleased at having sustained focus for this long -- especially given our diverse backgrounds. Other groups I've been involved in have not always managed such stamina. Looking forward, I think it would be nice if we had more sessions like the one Dan Markham organized on the PFOR-delta white paper. I don't have plans to continue driving us forward as has sometimes been the case, but when someone else proposes a session, I intend to show up having read the material and ready to participate. In the short term that may mean that sessions become scheduled more sporadically and ad hoc. That's fine; after 8 months of regular weekly meetings, I could use a breather -- and I know I'm not the only one. :) Marvin Humphrey
