"Quote" 10 features Apple 'stole' for the Swift programming language

 

By/ By Peter Wayner, InfoWorld, June 9, 2014

 

Summary/ To paraphrase the saying, good artists borrow, but great ones steal. However you look at it, Apple has nicked a number of features in creating Swift, its recently unveiled programming language for iOS. Swift may technically be "new," but look closely at the documentation, and you'll see Swift more as a collection of popular ideas employed in other programming languages, mashed together under a new name.

 

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