Because people will seriously be perplexed between an esoteric experimental programming language and operating system kernels, right?
Like that huge fiasco in the early 50s, when people confused OS kernels with corn...
Besides, the Linux kernel has a specific-enough dialect of C that I assumed this was about linux kernel programming based on the title.
Yeap, same here. This is a really poor naming choice.
Just fucking add fucking "programming language" as the suffix to your fucking query about Kernel the PL, to mimic the tone of the original comment.
Also, it's not like things like the linux kernel have a specific enough dialect of C it could be considered a programming dialect/language itself, so there are multiple layers of poor naming here.
The point is if you want people to use your esoteric programming language, you want to minimize any blatantly obvious pain points. Choosing a decent name is a very easy pain point to avoid.
I mean, it doesn’t turn up any results about corn, so I guess that’s something, but beyond that it doesn’t seem terribly helpful.