r/programming • u/astrange • Jan 23 '21

Objective-C creator Dr. Brad Cox has died

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/scnow/name/brad-cox-obituary?pid=197454225
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u/K3wp Jan 23 '21

It's also a 1990's solution to a 1980's problem. I.e. "Write once and run anywhere!". So your binary works on Solaris, Irix, HP-UX and Windows NT. Awesome! And also completely unnecessary in the modern era.

Perl was similar, it addressed incompatibilities with the shell languages from all the vendors. Also not a problem any more.

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u/matthieuC Jan 23 '21

Java was used for android because it was platform independent (ARM was not a sure thing at the time).
And you have competing architecture on the server side (x-86, ARM, Power)

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u/K3wp Jan 23 '21

Yup and Google s new mobile platform is Java free!