On 05/06/14 18:21, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
Funny how everyone wants to claim that Swift was inspired by their
${favorite_language} when the definitive answer is available directly
from the presentation:
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C, C++, Objective C, Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Perl, Groovy and LUA.
I raise your definitive answer with:
"...drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#,
CLU, and far too many others to list." [1]
(More seriously it's very clearly part of a generation of OO languages
that have picked up tricks from ML and Haskell -- start java-ish, favour
optional / maybe over null, enum / either, switch / match pattern
matching with destructuring).
Damian
[1] <http://nondot.org/sabre/> <http://nondot.org/sabre/>
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