The Original Swift Programming Language – Tutorial

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111 points·ColinWright··13 comments

And an article about it:

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/725...

It appears as though this article actually references a different language called Swift: http://swift-lang.org/main/

Yep. For those keeping track, swift-lang.org and the article Colin posted in the above comment are about one language, the OP is about a totally different language, and of course the more famous Swift is completely unrelated to either.

This is a different Swift language, not the one Apple just released. http://swift-lang.org/main/

Nope, not that Swift either. This is another one.

Looks like the site is timing out. I don't know if its from traffic or completely unrelated.

This name conflict reminds me of the Go vs Go! fiasco: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9

It's back up now.

Jif seems to have superseded this Swift (the secure web one): http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/

I've already seen people confusing features touted for the original Swift language (e.g. good for parallelism) as being pertinent to Apple's. Surely, the good folks at Apple must have been aware of this name conflict.

Check out these coding styles for Swift I found, which might be also useful: http://codingstyleguide.com/lang/23/swift

Wow, I guess Java isn't the most verbose and ugly language.

RIP

Not by a long-shot ... but I prefer the Errai framework's HTML mark-up for GWT, or even GWT's clumsy UiBinder over the Cornell Swift "overlay".

They'll have to start going by "Original Swift" or "Classic Swift" now.

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