“Swift will be open source later this year”

Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by Glide on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:02AM (#9684169)

Objective-C tends to err on the side of readability. Considering that source code is read many more times than it is written it's something I personally agree with. But yeah it's something you do get used to.

Java's problem is that C# exists and is a more expressive language.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by IsTom on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @02:04AM (#9684295)

But this isn't readable at all.

If you compare it JSON.parse(x) or fromJSON x it's just awful.

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Re:“Swift will be open source later this year” by Dewie3 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @04:52AM (#9684688)

The idea that more verbose == more readable is so annoying. It seems to be especially egregious in languages like Ada, which look like this to me (an uninitiated):

    okay here comes a function definition get ready
      function MyFun() begin
        return 1
      end begin
      end MyFun
    end function okay we are done

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