Computer Science Canada Here's to hoping... |
Author: | wtd [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:47 am ] |
Post subject: | Here's to hoping... |
It looks like Apple might just take functional programming and make it a huge commercial success with Swift Apparently the guy who headed the project even wants to use it as an intro CS language! |
Author: | Zren [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:32 pm ] |
Post subject: | RE:Here\'s to hoping... |
Is it Mac only? Or is there plans to port it to other OSes? Heard about it on hacker news. |
Author: | Tony [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:46 pm ] |
Post subject: | RE:Here\'s to hoping... |
Do OS X and iOS count as two operating systems? |
Author: | Srlancelot39 [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:59 pm ] |
Post subject: | RE:Here\'s to hoping... |
I dislike how they allow any symbol to entered into the editor, especially as part of a variable name. I didn't even know there were characters of a dog's and cow's head O_o While Swift seems to have a lot of similarities to C, it sure seems "easier" than Turing in other aspects... Looks cool overall though. |
Author: | Tony [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 2:24 pm ] |
Post subject: | RE:Here\'s to hoping... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode and many programming languages will allow non-ASCII symbols. Keep in mind that for most people, English is not their primary language. |
Author: | wtd [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:05 pm ] |
Post subject: | RE:Here\'s to hoping... |
If it takes off someone will probably write a GCC frontend for Swift. |