Swift: Scripting Language for Many-Task Computing

Reminds me a bit of Bpipe (<a href="http://bpipe.org" rel="nofollow">http://bpipe.org</a>), and Ruffus (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/ruffus/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/ruffus/</a>) ... though perhaps more mature? But the syntax is a bit more obtuse when you actually look at the examples (not that I mind learning it if the payoff is sufficient).<p>I think we'll see a lot of DSL style / scripting languages like this pop up as big data computing becomes more mainstream and people try to make parallelism easier to grok.

It's funny that most people (me, too) don't like the syntax. I think the problem is that Swift sells itself as a scripting language and scripting languages are often very easy to read like Bash, Ruby or Python.<p>Well, maybe if I see it again in the future, I'll try to code something in it.

does this qualify as a name collision with the php email library swift mailer?<p><a href="http://swiftmailer.org/" rel="nofollow">http://swiftmailer.org/</a>

I started seizing a bit when I looked at the example code.<p>I'm sure it's awesome, but friggin come on. There's more to life than algol 2.0.