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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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