To: PreciousLiberty
I think Swift looks pretty darned good. I hope open source implementations are allowed. If they posted the language reference, is it even possible to prevent someone else from writing a compiler for it? You can copyright a specific implementation, but not the language itself, as far as I know.
37 posted on
06/04/2014 8:03:43 AM PDT by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: kevkrom
(As an aside, I hope someone does create one, and soon. I want to write an OS X app, but don’t want to pony up the $99 developer fee until I’m certain it’s close to ready for market.)
38 posted on
06/04/2014 8:06:05 AM PDT by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: kevkrom
"If they posted the language reference, is it even possible to prevent someone else from writing a compiler for it? You can copyright a specific implementation, but not the language itself, as far as I know."
Apparently it's possible: Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules
Code, structure, sequence, and API organization entitled to copyright protection.
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