A simple reflective object kernel

A simple reflective object kernel is a booklet that guides to build a simple object-oriented reflective kernel following ObjVlisp model.

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About this book

This book explains the design and the consequence of having a self-described reflective minimal kernel such as ObjVlisp. Doing so you will learn about objects, object creation instantiation, message lookup, delegation, inheritance and much more. I love this booklet and model.

Thanks to Julien Delplanque and special thanks for Quentin D. for his great feedback on the understandibility and the copy edit suggestions. Please contact me if you noticed I wrote something wrong or not fully precise.

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