> But, I was seriously disappointing in the film. Which character were you?

This is indeed by Lem. No idea about English translation, but in Polish it was published as short story "Profesor DoÅda" in the volume "Maska" ("The Mask") in 1976. The idea was that energy, matter and information are all equivalent and if you reach critical amount of information it will turn to matter, forming a new Universe separate from ours. The story is grotesque and really funny.

"I hate what I am doing, so it cannot be fun to anyone". You are very wrong. Programming Z80 was a great fun. And it had nothing to do with how the number of cycles per operation.

Generally speaking, the more information you pack into a sequence of characters, the harder it is to understand.

Are you saying that

256 * 2 = 512

is harder to understand than

two hundred fifty six multiplied by two is five hundred twelve

They used the syntax with var so one can use let as well. Actually in Swift you should be using let by default, not var as in your example.

The compiler is smart enough, it just works differently than you think. Instead of your line, say

var version = bundle?.infoDictionary["CFBundleShortVersionString"] as NSString

and the type of 'version' will be inferred all right. This misunderstanding of the language shows that your code maybe that long because of you, not because of Swift.

You don't know anyone with @me.com or @icloud.com address?