Dan Ingalls on the History of Smalltalk and the Lively Kernel

And now Sun is owned by Oracle, which means they probably haven't an interest in exciting things like Self or Lively, unless they can get a new way to optimize left outer joins that they can sell in an upgrade or something out of it.

I'm trying to get a hold of the META II paper from 1962 he mentions, it sounds very interesting.

Is there anyone who read the paper and could give me his/her opinion?

(Fortunately, the university library has an ACM subscription.)