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Re: The Swift Programming Language: what is our position towards this?
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Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller |
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Re: The Swift Programming Language: what is our position towards this? |
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Thu, 5 Jun 2014 07:10:43 +0200 |
Am 04.06.2014 um 21:12 schrieb Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf:
> Hi 'steppers,
>
> I am sure the one or another of us has heard about that new language for
> Cocoa/Cocoa Touch that Apple has recently introduced:
>
> https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AboutTheLanguageReference.html
>
> What is our position towards this? Is there already an official GNUstep
> position?
Developed within 3 days?
> If not, what are your opinions?
I don't see yet which problem the new language solves. Maybe removing some @
signs in code. In my view even Obj-C 1.0 was feature complete to do everything
one wants in a rather neat and clean way. ObjC 2.x has simplified writing code
at some places but introduced redundancy at others.
10 years ago I started to develop CocoaBasic and the language and integration
of the Obj-C frameworks wasn't that much different from SWIFT:
http://cocoadev.com/CocoaBasic
> Does anybody know about the legal status of this language, e.g. whether we're
> allowed to support it or not?
IMHO languages are not protected or protectable.
>
>
> Happy stepping,
Same to you,
Nikolaus
Re: The Swift Programming Language: what is our position towards this?, Gregory Casamento, 2014/06/04
Re: The Swift Programming Language: what is our position towards this?,
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <=