The purpose is to make understand that the arrow is powerful in many different ways. This means that we need to adapt to each kind of public. This discussion leads to the proposition to have a group of persons elaborating on the idea of an electronic book. Corrado B hm, Claude Kirchner, Jos Meseguer, Femke van Raamsdonk and Rakesh Verma will discuss about its contents. Claude and Corrado presented respectively the opinions of David Plaisted and Marisa Venturini Zilli.
Some participants agree that most of the main questions in the domain have been solved.
Some on the contrary believe that important questions are far to be solved. There are also many applications of rewriting, but no real breakthrough. Though rewriting is a notion present in many areas, but it is not always a research point by itself. Rewriting is a very simple mechanism that subsumes many techniques. It is not known enough as a translation tool.