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. 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.)

While were mentioning, I seem to have read a few rumors that VisualWorks
is going to get StrongTalk rolled in. That should provide some interesting
things to study (especially if they use it for Common Lisp style
optimization).

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.