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It's turtles all the way down.

• deleted 13y ago
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• mburns 13y ago
  That idiom doesn't apply to this situation.
  • codex 13y ago
    Doesn't implementing a kernel in LISP really just move the interesting bits into the LISP GC, compiler, and runtime?
    • betterunix 13y ago
      What makes you think that those bits cannot be written in Lisp? Keep in mind that entire OSes were written in Lisp in the 70s and 80s.
    • mburns 13y ago
      No more so than writing a kernel in C moves the interesting bits into the compiler. LISP OS's have been made before, and there is no reason one couldn't be written again that looks UNIX-like. The networking stack, device drivers, bootloader, etc, all need to be written in much the same way they would in a C-written kernel.