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Apple is doing Swift now. Goes into a similar direction: a "better" language than Objective-C / C++ for application development. At that time there were key Li
by lispm 10y ago
Apple is doing Swift now. Goes into a similar direction: a "better" language than Objective-C / C++ for application development.
At that time there were key Lisp (and Smalltalk) people in Apple's management, especially Larry Tesler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler
He described why they were working on Dylan:
http://lispm.de/docs/prefix-dylan/book.annotated/foreword.html http://lispm.de/docs/prefix-dylan/book.annotated/foreword.ht...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI should probably look into Swift at some point, but I've never found the time, and I find languages like Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, JS, Haskell, CL, and Scheme far more compelling.