[swift-users] Origin of Swift name

[Erica Sadun]

I believe it went something like "Someone come up with a name and make it fast"



Speedy and quick are both crappy names for programming languages.

If they hadn't gone with Swift, I'm sure we'd be programming in Rapid.

-- E





p.s. yeah, mine too.

> On Jan 18, 2016, at 2:09 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?
> 
> Cordially,
> Richard
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