It might have to do with how Smalltalk/Squeak comes from people who believed the OS is stuff that you wanted in the language. Dan Ingalls: "An operating system

It might have to do with how Smalltalk/Squeak comes from people who believed the OS is stuff that you wanted in the language. Dan Ingalls: "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.h... Alan Kay mentions this idea in relation to Lisp and Smalltalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQg4LquY0uU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQg4LquY0uU (It's buried somewhere after 24 minutes.)