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Apple rips off Monodevelop and names it Swift

By Cancer in Cancer's Diary
Mon Jun 02, 2014 at 03:59:16 PM EST
Tags: technology, software, programming, Mono, C#, Swift, Apple, ripoff (all tags)
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http://developer.apple.com/swift/

http://monodevelop.com/

A blatant ripoff.

They stole Swift from Crawford and Jonathan Swift.


It looks like they stole from Ruby and Python to make the language as well, tuples, LOL!

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Apple rips off Monodevelop and names it Swift | 4 comments (4 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
I kinda like Objective-C's syntax since ARC$ (none / 1) (#1)
by mirko on Mon Jun 02, 2014 at 04:17:41 PM EST


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Why are Apple's languages so hard to learn (none / 1) (#4)
by Cancer on Tue Jun 03, 2014 at 12:24:44 AM EST

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7837828

This was ignored at Hacker News, I think they banned the submitter. I think he has a great point.

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