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Brad Cox
KindPerson
Born1944
Died2021
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Created Objective-C (1984) — Smalltalk objects bolted onto C — which NeXT and later the iPhone built on.

Created Objective-C

Created Objective-C (1984) — Smalltalk's messaging on C's base — and wrote 'Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach.'\n\nSold it to Stepstone, licensed to NeXT; Apple's 30-year ObjC codebase is his syntax.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Cox