The Original Swift Programming Language – Tutorial (cs.cornell.edu)

111 points by ColinWright 12y ago ↗ HN

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ColinWright 12y ago ↗

And an article about it:

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

jdstafford 12y ago ↗

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

chc 12y ago ↗

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.

spideyunlimited 12y ago ↗

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

chc 12y ago ↗

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

diegoloop 12y ago ↗

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

mildweed 12y ago ↗

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

matthewbauer 12y ago ↗

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

army 12y ago ↗

It's back up now.

army 12y ago ↗

Jif seems to have superseded this Swift (the secure web one): http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/

krazydad 12y ago ↗

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.

salahxanadu 12y ago ↗

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

RIP

smoyer 12y ago ↗

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".