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At the end of the article, he/she says "the Swift programming language has been public for less than a week and already has more users than Perl 6, and Swift is
by winter_blue 12y ago
At the end of the article, he/she says "the Swift programming language has been public for less than a week and already has more users than Perl 6, and Swift is entirely built on technologies which have been invented since the Perl 6 announcement".
That's simply false; anyone who's been in the programming languages field for a while knows that...
- aaronbrethorst 12y agoI interpreted that as 'Perl 6 dates back to 2000, while LLVM (upon which Swift is built) dates back to slightly later in the year in 2000.' (although, to be fair, the LLVM website first appeared in 2002.)