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

2021-01-23 Thread Ivan Vučica
The world owes Dr. Cox a lot. May he rest in peace. Thank you for sharing. On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 8:38 PM Josh Freeman wrote: > > Dr. Brad Cox, who co-created the Objective-C language with > business partner Tom Love, has passed: >

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

2021-01-23 Thread Daniel Boyd
, 2021 4:15 PM To: Josh Freeman Cc: Discuss-gnustep Discuss 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

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

2021-01-23 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 23.01.2021 um 21:38 schrieb Josh Freeman : > > 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=197454225 How sad. I still favour Objective-C (1.0) over all newer

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

2021-01-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
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