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		robertkrahn01 on Sept 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift is a more convenient Rust Brendan Eich used both Scheme and Self as inspirations. Self is a dialect of Smalltalk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

pessimizer on Sept 6, 2024 [–]

Did you link his biography? The claim is that he used Self as an inspiration, not that there was once a man named Brendan Eich.

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