larceny unleashed

Last week, Will finally decided it was time to "release" Petit Larceny (as well as the latest build for Native Larceny).

I don't have much else to add to the subject. (other than its not really what anyone is willing to call a formal release; Will calls it a "Developer's Alpha", and I call it "Potentially Unembarressing")

However, it is nice that we've hit this stage.

Next items on my agenda:

• Finish term paper on "Computability and Complexity of Type Inference" (this mostly consists of poking Carl with progressively larger sticks).
• Finish getting NASM support working for Larceny on win32 platforms (so that we can release for windows as well as the current Mac OS X and Sparc).
• Merge the Common Larceny and Petit Larceny (aka release_2) source branches in the CVS repository.
• Start planning out how to implement the Garbage First collector in Larceny's runtime.