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PostPosted: 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!
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PostPosted: 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.
Tony




PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:46 pm   Post subject: RE:Here\'s to hoping...

Do OS X and iOS count as two operating systems? Wink
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PostPosted: 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.
Tony




PostPosted: 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.
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wtd




PostPosted: 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.
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