Obituary on Rietta Cybersecurity https://rietta.com/tags/obituary/ Recent content in Obituary on Rietta Cybersecurity Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us 1999-2026 Rietta Inc. All Rights Reserved. Brad Cox has died https://rietta.com/blog/brad-cox-died/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:50:00 -0500 https://rietta.com/blog/brad-cox-died/ Dr. Brad J. Cox Ph.D., influential computer scientist has died. Among his many accomplishments was the co-invention of the Objective C programming language with Tom Love. This was one of the early object oriented programming languages. Objective-C was a groundbreaking mainstream object oriented programming language that was influenced by Smalltalk. His work paved the way for concepts and languages that have become mainstream, including in programming languages Ruby, Java, and Swift.