I find all these "inspired by" conjectures a bit vapid, but just to play along, I would argue that Swift belongs in the generation of languages sparked by C and C++, with which it has much more in common than with Haskell and ML languages.
To me, Swift seems to validate the "pendulum in the middle" approach that we started seeing with Ceylon and Kotlin. Java looks fairly primitive today (pendulum left), Scala is reasonably advanced and pioneered a lot of interesting features in that family of languages (pendulum right) and Ceylon/Kotlin/Swift advocate a middle ground approach that takes the best of both extremes (pendulum in the middle). -- Cédric -- Cédric On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:46 AM, shellac <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > > Inline image 1 > > 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/> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
