[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 01:05:24PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6/3/2014 5:03 AM, Chris wrote:
> >
> >After all it was created by God, er, Apple. (Mind you, it was
> >because of an apple that God evicted humans from paradaise :-)
> >
> 
> Heh heh :) Why has that never occurred to me before?
> 
> Side note: I've heard arguments that the biblical "apple" may have
> originally been a pomegranate. If so, then not surprising it would
> have been changed to an apple - pomegranates had kinda gotten lost
> from public awareness in certain cultures (like the US) until only
> fairly recently with all the renewed interest in healthy eating. (Not
> that apples aren't healthy, but poms are said to be *really* healthy,
> apparently.)

Note that NOWHERE in the original Hebrew Bible does it say that the
fruit was an apple or a pomegranate or anything like that. The
apple/pomegranate interpretation is entirely made up, probably by an
overly enthusiastic children's story author.


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