[swift-users] Origin of Swift name

[Greg Parker]

> On Jan 19, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Joe Groff via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 18, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Richard Yeh via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
> 
> (PS this is a joke)

Chris secretly writes Tom Swift fan fiction. "Tom Swift and His New Programming Language" is his favorite.



(PS this is also a joke)


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Greg Parker     gparker at apple.com     Runtime Wrangler