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4 unusual facts about Brad Cox


Brad Cox

Albeit Brad Cox invented his own programming language, Objective-C, he has stated in an interview for the Masterminds of programming book that he isn't interested in programming languages but rather in software components and he regards languages as mere tools for building and combining parts of software.

Even though Brad Cox invented his own programming language, Objective-C, which he used in his early career, he currently (as of 2004) conducts most of his work in other programming languages, namely Perl, Python, Ruby, Java and XML.

Objective-C

Objective-C was created primarily by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s at their company Stepstone.

Stepstone

Stepstone, originally named Productivity Products International (PPI), was a software company founded in 1983 by Brad Cox and Tom Love, best known for releasing the original version of the Objective-C programming language.



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