LispOS Kernel: the Tunes approach

[Harvey J. Stein]

Fare Rideau writes:
 >    Device drivers come as very basic modules; but functionality
 > common to many device drivers can already be factored into functors
                                                              ^^^^^^^^
What exactly are you talking about when you say "functors"?  My PhD is
in arithmetical geometry, so I'm quite familiar with category theory,
but I never heard of category theory (and functors, which are
basically homeomorphisms of categories) being used in a computer
programming context.

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Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il