RE: Dr. Brad Cox, co-creator of Objective-C

[Daniel Boyd]

Agree -- When I have a new project, I usually find myself leaning towards
ObjC unless there's a really good reason to use something else. It's just a
great language that's stood the test of time

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Subject: Re: Dr. Brad Cox, co-creator of Objective-C

Thank you Josh for sharing this. I remember fondly reading Brad Cox's book
while i was still at University. The concept of Soft-ICs, reusable software
components, won me over for Objective-C. So even a long time before starting
to contributing to GNUstep  I learned and liked the language.
Thank you Brad for giving it to us!

Fred

> Am 23.01.2021 um 21:38 schrieb Josh Freeman
<gnustep_lists@twilightedge.com>:
> 
>   Dr. Brad Cox, who co-created the Objective-C language with business
partner Tom Love, has passed:
>
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/scnow/name/brad-cox-obituary?pid=197454
225
> 
>   If you'd like to read about Objective-C's early history, Dr. Cox
co-wrote an article last year, titled, "The origins of Objective-C at
PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT":
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386332  (Free online eReader, PDF
download)
> 
>