Swift (parallel scripting language)

Swift
Paradigms	Dataflow, distributed, grid, concurrent, scientific workflow, scripting
Developers	University of Chicago,; Argonne National Laboratory
First appeared	2007
Stable release	0.96.2 / August 5, 2015
Typing discipline	Strong
Platform	Cross-platform: Java
OS	Cross-platform: Java
License	Apache 2.0
Website	swift-lang.org
Influenced by
	C syntax, functional programming
Influenced
	Cuneiform

Swift^[1] is an implicitly parallel programming language that allows writing scripts that distribute program execution across distributed computing resources,^[2] including clusters, clouds, grids, and supercomputers. Swift implementations are open-source software under the Apache License, version 2.0.

^ "Swift Home Page". swift-lang.org. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
^ Wilde, Michael; Hategan, Mihael; Wozniak, Justin M.; Clifford, Ben; Katz, Daniel S.; Foster, Ian (2011). "Swift: A language for distributed parallel scripting" (PDF). Parallel Computing. 37 (9): 633–652. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.658.8990. doi:10.1016/j.parco.2011.05.005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-06.