Wired (July 14) -- Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language -- a new way of designing, building and running computer software -- and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his closest friends and colleagues. Now, Apple is releasing a test version to coders. Vikram Adve was Lattner’s graduate adviser at Illinois, helping him to fashion the software that would serve as the foundation for Swift, but Adve is just as surprised as anyone that his former student had spent so much time building a new programming language.