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On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 7:21:45 PM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Quel surprise, it's YAC (yet another C)

If Swift is yet another C, then Ada is yet another Pascal.  As food for tho=
ught for a few features to import into Ada202X, I encourage everyone to rea=
d Apple's language reference for Swift, which is available as a free iBook =
(but not a PDF apparently).  Generally, my initial impression is that Swift=
 is Objective-C done right, ridding us of that obnoxious Objective-C bracke=
t syntax for "sending" OO "messages" via Smalltalk-like selectors.  Had Bra=
d Cox given the world Swift during the 1980s instead of Objective-C, C++ mi=
ght never have been as popular as it became during the late 1980s and durin=
g the 1990s.