Sticks&Stones <language, functional programming> A {functional}, {polymorphic} {hardware description language} loosely based on {ML} by Lucca Cardelli. ["An Algebraic Approach to Hardware Description and Verification", L. Cardelli, Thesis, Edinburgh U, 1982]. ["Sticks&Stones II: A Functional Language VLSI Layout Generation Tool", Andrew Butterfield <[email protected]>, Thesis, Trinity College, 1990]. (2008-03-04)