<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I believe it went something like "Someone come up with a name and make it fast"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="E7E4BCEB-DD5C-4F52-B47F-E140164B5A20" height="161" width="563" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8802BBF5-9830-4AB3-A9D6-CBA930B67D82@hsd1.co.comcast.net" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Speedy and quick are both crappy names for programming languages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If they hadn't gone with Swift, I'm sure we'd be programming in Rapid.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">p.s. yeah, mine too.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 18, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Richard Yeh via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">How did Swift come to be named? What were other potential names that were discarded?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cordially,</div><div class="">Richard</div></div>
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