Project Stella updated

[Francogrex]

Guys (Thomas and Co.) I don't know if you are intentionally keeping a low profile. But as I had said before, Stella is an awesome project and probably needs to be advertised more. It's true that I haven't been following all the blogs and posts but still I think it's "under-advertised". By chance I saw there is a recent update that has many enhancements. Thanks for the good work. Regards. Franco
http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/Stella/

[Lee Thomas]

On 28/05/2012 11:41, Francogrex wrote:
> Guys (Thomas and Co.) I don't know if you are intentionally keeping a low profile. But as I had said before, Stella is an awesome project and probably needs to be advertised more. It's true that I haven't been following all the blogs and posts but still I think it's "under-advertised". By chance I saw there is a recent update that has many enhancements. Thanks for the good work. Regards. Franco
> http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/Stella/

I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is.
So it's a Lisp dialect / derivative that compiles to C++ or Java?
Haven't we got several of those already? Well, several implementations
of CL and Scheme that compile to C/C++/Java/CLR?

If I'm missing something important, by all means clue me in.

[tar...@google.com]

The main difference is that Stella doesn't try to be a full lisp implementation that compiles to the substrate.

Rather the goal is to produce native-looking code using the underlying native object system so that interaction with the Stella-generated code is natural for programs in the target language. This is the primary design constraint that drives a lot of the restrictions of the Stella language.

- Tom.
(I don't read this group as often as I used to...)