[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 04:35:18 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> I think Pike, Cox, et al. disagree; for them exceptions are 
> only a
> termination mechanism and return codes are the way of 
> communicating. If
> Swift has no exceptions, then Apple must be following the Go 
> model
> rather than the D, Python, (C++ ?), etc. one.
>

It seems interesting to note that for M# it's the exact reverse, 
exceptions are for recoverable errors and crashing is for 
unrecoverable ones (I lost the link to the reference).