[swift-users] Origin of Swift name

Joe Groff jgroff at apple.com
Tue Jan 19 15:24:32 CST 2016


> On Jan 18, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Richard Yeh via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> How did Swift come to be named? What were other potential names that were discarded?

Chris started the project at the height of the Occupy movement. It was his small rebellion against the banking establishment to make "Swift code" an ambiguous term.

-Joe


















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