[SCL] Again: new version of SCL draft attached

[Chris Menzel]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:39:54PM +0200, Tanel Tammet wrote:
> >Please, let us not make more divisions than are required. Chris has
> >been putting valiant work into writing a unified technical
> >specification. 
> 
> Which is otherwise fine, but as it is presented now, I am
> incapable of fully understanding the presentation.
> 
> Considering myself a typical audience for the SCL spec, 

True -- then let's not confuse the SCL spec with the technical spec.  
A friendlier SCL spec can and will be extracted from the technical spec.

> Look: I am not just complaining that it is hard to understand. I have
> a written a lot of structured, hopefully understandable chapters
> presenting simple stuff, which IMHO could be perceived as core, with
> the hope that we can continue building fancier stuff on this core.
> 
> I have seen no serious comments or suggestions on these chapters.
> There is currently nothing I can do. Only Chris and me are writing
> material for publication, I cannot understand what Chris writes, Chris
> does not comment or modify anything I write.

This is only for lack of time, and is by no means meant to be a slight.
I am stretched terribly thin right now.  It's all I can do to try to
hold up my end on the tech spec until I'm done teaching, in about two
weeks.  (Do you not have teaching obligations?)  I began writing up
comments on your stuff, a lot of which I liked, but as I got into that
it seemed to me it was going to require rather extensive revisions.
Sorry I can't be more specific at the moment.  It would take me probably
6-8 hours to write it all up.

> IMHO we are badly stuck right now.

This is a very pessimistic and unwarranted spin.  As soon as I write up
the identity stuff and get it out of my head, I'll turn to a careful
reading of your stuff and will submit comments and suggested revisions,
and won't write anything new on the tech spec til I'm done.

-chris