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Dr. Brad J. Cox Ph.D.

Manassas, Virginia

1944 - 2021

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Dr. Brad J.Cox Ph.DDr. Brad Cox, Ph.D of Manassas, Virginia, died on January 2, 2021 at his residence. Dr. Cox was a computer scientist known mostly for creating the Objective – C programming language with his business partner, Tom Love, and for his work in software engineering (specifically...

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Thank you Dr. Cox, your work truly inspired many of us that work in the computer science

Objectively a visionary, denting the Universe resulting in waves of ripples to this day and continuing... https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3386332

Thank you Brad Cox for giving us a way to understand the beauty behind the Internet and codes. You are an amazing person. Thank you again!

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I'm just another Objective-C programmer (still currently using at my job) who wants to acknowledge a debt to Brad Cox for creating such a fine language. RIP.

Rest in peace. Your legacy will live on! Thank you, Dr. Cox, for being such a great person.

Thank you Brad Cox for giving us a way to feel a little bit like Smalltalk programmers while using C. It was a lot of fun, we all built some amazingly new capabilities at the time, enabled by your creativity. When I think of look at a MacBookPro, I think of NeXTstep, when I think of NeXTstep, I think of you. Thank you again! You really helped us programmers get out of a rut and into thinking anew. May your memory long live!

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I never knew Brad but I have worked with Objective C for more than 15 years, it´s still the best language available to make Apple software with and still has a lot of potential to grow. He was a brilliant man, and will be missed.