WDU and teaching Shen, books and other things

[Mark Tarver]

I'm putting coding aside for a bit to concentrate on writing. I'm
still writing the second edition of TBoS and I'm in touch with WDUP
(World Dignity University Press) who have accepted to publish another
book of mine on Taoism. The book takes the form of dialogues between
a master and 2 disciples and was written after a hair-raising trip to
China where I had amongst other things, to haul myself up Huashan with
a dislocated shoulder. Happy days!

TBoS (2nd edition) is likely to have a video presentation with it and
a series of ppt slides for teaching which I've actually had since Qi
was taught at Stony Brook during 2002. I'm in discussion with WDU
over teaching this.

Somebody asked me about putting up the spec for Shen 9. The main
differences are internal; coding - and do not affect the spec apart
from the type-checked YACC which is still experimental and will not
make its way into the spec until after validation which will take a
time. YACC spec changes will go up probably early April with 9.1
after I've had more chance to polish.

Mark