Are there similarities between operating system kernels and programming language kernels?
- by rahmu
I know very little about Smalltalk but I noticed that there's a frequent mention of the "kernel". Dan Ingalls prime maintainer of several implementations of Smalltalk also worked on a Javascript environment called "Lively Kernel" and in Peter Siebel's book he kept mentionning the "kernel".
I cannot help but think that it is no coincidence that the…