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Re:Interview with Ken Thompson (2011) by mpweiher on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:27PM (#15117781)
Cough. Well, except the the "simple" part...
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Re:Interview with Ken Thompson (2011) by penpapersw on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:55PM (#15118085)
Yeah not saying Swift is simple. But its goal was originally (and may still be) to be Objective-C without the C.
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Re:Interview with Ken Thompson (2011) by mpweiher on Monday August 28, 2017 @02:43PM (#15118989)
Nope. That was always an empty marketing slogan.

Objective-C is Smalltalk added to C. Objective-C without the C is Smalltalk. Which is, coincidentally, a very simple language.

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