Only the greybeards will get that reference. :)
Swift looks very interesting. Seems to be the first language specifically designed to fully exploit the technology behind LLVM. One can only hope that the impressive performance numbers claimed will hold up and that this will cause a rethink in the academic programming language community where everything done over the past decade has been based on JVM.
I read the tutorial earlier. I hadn’t used objective C but coming from a java background it looked like something I could pick up quickly.