[swift-evolution] A concern

Chris Lattner clattner at nondot.org
Sun Feb 19 11:55:47 CST 2017


> On Feb 19, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Rien via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Its Sunday, time for some reflection...
> 
> One of the big plusses of Objective-C was that the entire manual was just a few pages long. I have not looked it up, but IIRC the entire manual describing the language was probably less than 50 pages. Much less if you subtract the filler stuff.

Objective-C is a superset of C, and the C parts are really important in practice.  Are you including the complexity of C in your measure?

-Chris


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