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Radio 4 and Dr K on programming languages: Full of Java Kool-Aid

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When Apple's engineers were designing Swift, their initial prototype didn't have an if statement or indeed any sort of branching.

When asked why, their rationale was that "with Apple, we've already made all the correct decisions for you, and there's only one true direction we want you to head in."

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