Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Sticks&Stones
     
        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 ,
        Thesis, Trinity College, 1990].