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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by willtim on Saturday August 11, 2018 @10:46AM (#17739852)
They didn't include everything, far from it. For example, lambdas were deliberately left out, despite objections from Guy Steele. Parametric polymorphism (generics) was also well known in academia at the time, since the 70's, but Gosling claimed to have not understood it.
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by mikkelam on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:05PM (#17740196)
The concept was specifically to include the best ideas, not everything
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by willtim on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:39PM (#17740369)
No the concept was to drag the C++ programmers halfway towards the best ideas :)
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by peatmoss on Saturday August 11, 2018 @05:59PM (#17741789)
For those missing the reference, this is a play on a quote attributed to Guy Steele:

> "We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

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