{"id":9748,"date":"2014-10-06T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9748"},"modified":"2021-01-25T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:59:56","slug":"brad-cox-interview-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/brad-cox-interview-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Cox Interview (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/preserve.mactech.com\/articles\/mactech\/Vol.25\/25.07\/2507RoadtoCode-BradCoxInterview\/index.html\">Dave Dribin<\/a> interviews Objective-C co-creator Brad Cox (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuoji\/status\/519075660653154304\">Christoffer Lern&ouml;<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/preserve.mactech.com\/articles\/mactech\/Vol.25\/25.07\/2507RoadtoCode-BradCoxInterview\/index.html\"><p>When I learned about Smalltalk and object-oriented programming from the Byte article, I think in 1982, I realized I could do something pretty similar in C and that would be a better basis to build on.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When I was directly involved, its goal was simply to add dynamic typing to C&rsquo;s static typing. And the static typing you&rsquo;re referring to was largely added after my time.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was that Objective-C features were to be a fairly lightweight kind of tool: a soldering gun not a silicon fab line. The things you&rsquo;d use C for, the statically typed stuff would be ways of building the software ICs. And that&rsquo;d be done in C. That was the idea at least.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Dribin interviews Objective-C co-creator Brad Cox (via Christoffer Lern&ouml;): When I learned about Smalltalk and object-oriented programming from the Byte article, I think in 1982, I realized I could do something pretty similar in C and that would be a better basis to build on. [&#8230;] When I was directly involved, its goal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-25T15:00:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"7928f0cf-c477-4401-bbfe-32bc2aa9a2b0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-25T15:00:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AeSjwz8R3RAG7_jK8KqmisA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,46,54,71],"class_list":["post-9748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-languagedesign","tag-objective-c","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31427,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748\/revisions\/31427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}