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
-----Original Message----- From: Discuss-gnustep <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Fred Kiefer Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 4:15 PM To: Josh Freeman <[email protected]> Cc: Discuss-gnustep Discuss <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>: > > 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) > >
