On Dec 15, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > Swift doesn’t seem like a good fit for the kinds of tasks people write > shell-scripts for. It’s a system/app programming language, like C/C++. > Scripting languages have extremely dynamic typing, super-high-level APIs, and > no separate compile/link stage.
One possible advantage is that it would be relatively easy (instead of nigh-impossible) to have a shell script that interacts efficiently with the GUI. But yes, this is mostly meant as a way for me to get a handle on the language by writing things I am familiar with and have some investment in. -- Stone circles were common enough everywhere in the mountains. Druids built them as weather computers, and since it was always cheaper to build a new 33-Megalith circle than to upgrade an old slow one, there were generally plenty of ancient ones around --Lords and Ladies _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
