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				  Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:47 am    Post subject: Here's to hoping...  | 
	
				
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				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! | 
			 
			
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				  Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:32 pm    Post subject: RE:Here\'s to hoping...  | 
	
				
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				| Is it Mac only? Or is there plans to port it to other OSes? Heard about it on hacker news. | 
			 
			
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				  Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:59 pm    Post subject: RE:Here\'s to hoping...  | 
	
				
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				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...
 
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				  Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:05 pm    Post subject: RE:Here\'s to hoping...  | 
	
				
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				| If it takes off someone will probably write a GCC frontend for Swift. | 
			 
			
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