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Re: Need for Swift

  • Subject: Re: Need for Swift
  • From: Richard Charles via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:35:03 -0600
> On Oct 11, 2019, at 9:09 PM, Kirk Kerekes via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It is my inference that Swift arose out of a perceived need for a language
> that strongly inhibited bad/lazy/sloppy programming practices, and yet looked
> “normal”.

Here is my take. I think Swift came from the mind of Chris Lattner who showed
it to management and they loved the idea. It was made possible by the power and
flexibility of the LLVM compiler.

--Richard Charles

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