On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Alan Kay wrote:

> Sure, you just need some hints. You might all be interested in one of 
> the projects that Andreas is doing: to "APLize" the array and matrix 
> arithmetic in Squeak. 

This is exciting news especially in combination with all the other
features Squeak already has! (For example large integer arithmetic)

> APL was another system that could beat FORTRAN 
> (because the APL interpreter could do algebra, and especially, e.g. 
> know that an inner product was desired. This allowed really great 
> machine code to be fashioned that optimized inner product.)

I liked the compactness of APL and it's mathematical orientation.
It was my first programming language. Later I had to use FORTRAN
because of it's libraries.


Hannes