Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages

Gamoid writes: This Business Insider article looks into the state of Google Go and Apple Swift, highlighting what the two languages have in common — and why tech companies would bother involving themselves in the programming language holy wars. From the article: "One fringe benefit for Google and Apple is that making your own programming language makes recruitment easier — for instance, since it builds a lot of its own server applications in Go, Google is more likely to hire a developer who's already proficient in the language since she would need less training."

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Re:That last sentence makes no sense

[Aighearach]

And for non-sexists, we just think of it as polite, inclusive communication to attempt to balance any non-inclusive terminology, such as is required in a language like English that lacks gender-neutral pronouns accepted by popular publishing style guides.

Calling it "corpspeak" is as absurd and offensive as claiming it is "political" speech. Only politicians and executives are being polite for political reasons. Everybody else is doing it just to be polite. Polite-speak.