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> Most languages have had this since the 1960s. > It's called the "if" clause. If we got rid of everything we don't absolutely need in programming, we would h

> Most languages have had this since the 1960s. > It's called the "if" clause. If we got rid of everything we don't absolutely need in programming, we would have to get rid of 98% of Swift syntax, and probably every modern programming language including Swift.

ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
Yes, but I LIKE Swift, because of all that sugar. I started off with machine language, in embedded systems. You can't get much more "raw" than that. I have been writing Swift exclusively for a long time. I speak it without an accent. It's my beauty. But I also know that you can have so much sugar you fall into a diabetic coma.
- FpUser 7y ago
  >But I also know that you can have so much sugar you fall into a diabetic coma. Exactly my feelings. Same thing here started from machine code and now doing everything else including kitchen sink
  - megous 7y ago
    Did you guys really start from machine code or do you mean assembler?
    - ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
      Machine. Hex keypad and a lot of looking up hex codes for commands. Type in a bunch of numbers, then set the PC to 0. Assembler was great after that. I do not remember that stuff fondly. It sucked.
    - FpUser 7y ago
      Machine code. Was actually typing it on big roll of paper and then crawling around it pretending to be a debugger