[pnathan]

Kernel the language can be found here: http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

Where the author mentions that it is related to his doctoral dissertation, Fexprs as the basis of Lisp function application; or, $vau: the ultimate abstraction[1].

[1] http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-090110-124904/