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joshdance on June 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chris Lattner on Swift

I honestly expected Bret Victor to do the demo on Swift after seeing the realtime playground etc.

ibdknox on June 3, 2014 [–]

fwiw, he had no direct involvement in it. http://www.quora.com/Did-Bret-Victor-work-with-Apple-on-the-...

snowwrestler on June 3, 2014 | | [–]

I love that his account's URL is http://www.quora.com/Bret-Victor-1, because http://www.quora.com/Bret-Victor was already dedicated to his name as a topic.

joshdance on June 3, 2014 | | [–]

You are correct he was not involved. But the language creator specifically calls him and Lightroom out as inspiration.

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