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Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift
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Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift

by David Kopec
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix C. A brief history of Swift

Where did Swift come from, and where is it going? This appendix aims to answer both of these questions. To fully appreciate Swift’s purpose requires understanding the ecosystem that it emerged from. Swift is a young language, but it incorporates many old ideas.

Warning

This appendix is not meant to provide reference-quality material. It contains speculation, suppositions, and opinion.

A brief history of programming language paradigms incorporated in Swift

Swift contains all of the features that have become standard in class-based, object-oriented programming languages. These are features like objects, inheritance, polymorphism, and many more that are exposed when you build using the ...

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