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+STklos is a free Scheme system compliant with the languages features
+defined in R7RS. The aim of this implementation is to be fast as well
+as light. The implementation is based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine.
+
+The salient points of STklos are:
+
+an efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing
+Multiple Inheritance,
+Generic Functions,
+Multi-methodsp
+an efficient MOP (Meta Object Protocol)
+a simple to use module system
+a full tower of numbers implementation, as defined in R5RS,
+easy connection to the GTK+ toolkit,
+a Perl compatible regular expressions thanks to the PCRE package,
+it implements properly tail recursive calls.