David Rush scripsit:

> I knew this was going to come up. Jeff has passed on the maintenance of
> Stalin to another group now so looking to him for the latest releases
> will give you wrong data. And it is most certainly not a dead-end, my
> own (currently NDA'd) research efforts are heavily based on its ideas.

I also already conceded that it was an important predecessor of many
efforts.  Where is this new group to be found, with its new releases?

> And in between is some surprisingly clear code once you get used to
> programming Scheme without type-punning. And frankly, my experience
> in industry is that no amount of documentation can make up for
> poor programming style, whereas perspicuous code needs very little
> documentation in the first place.

Granted.  But code can't explain *why*.

> I did that, and included SRFI-9 into the bargain as well so that I
> could get Stalin's type optimizations to work well.

Excellent!  When will this be released, or if released, where is it?

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