Designing a programming language is an difficult task. During my time in academia, I had the great pleasure to meet some language designers. Listening to their stories is highly educating. Things that look simple or arbitrary at first become deep insights into the way humans understand problems and model solutions. There is nothing trivial in deciding names of keywords or punctuation.

I've recently added two new entries to the Code Generation Optimization Ideas page. As one can see there are many things that can improve the performance of the generated code.