Brad Cox

virtualschool.edu : Language designer of Objective Cee

Gee, how did this get here? I presume its OK for me to extend it with some later interests:

Action learning environment:
virtualschool.edu

Digital property rights:
virtualschool.edu

Java Web Application Architecture:
virtualschool.edu

More than you ever wanted to know:
virtualschool.edu

Sorry: No pages for other interests like beekeeping, piano-playing, etc.

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Hi Brad, I recently wrote an anecdote about Choosinga Wiki - see Wiki Choosing Stories. Good Luck. -- Randy Stafford

P.S. Amazing community here. I got three emails from old friends today based solely on the edits to this page.


And just wait 'til you hear from the friends you didn't know you had! I picked up my first edition copy of Object Oriented Programming An Evolutionary Approach just after it was published. My first reading of it (in one sitting) still rests among my top ten programming Ah Ha experiences. -- Stephen Humphrey


Brad, LTNS. I took your Objective-C course at the same time as Gerry Weinberg and - oh, what's his name - the former NSA guy. It'll come to me. Anyway, welcome. -- Ron Jeffries


Indeed! Drop me a line and bring me up to date. Great to hear from you again! I think you mean Kurt Schmucker, now at Apple last I heard. (From an eavesdropper via recent changes - Kurt Schmucker! I've been trying to remember that name for years, so I could reference the first time I was introduced to OOP - his writings from early Apple Mac publications - and a later book, I think.)


Object Oriented Programming An Evolutionary Approach: the most fun I ever had from such a thin book! I had a Tektronix smalltalk machine (4317), (68020 based). I wrote an obj-c preprocessor and implemented much of the Smalltalk class hierarchy in obj-c. I also added a non-stop garbage collector. I still think it was the most efficient development environment I ever used. mailto:eparker@zyvex.com.


Planning the Software Industrial Revolution, by Brad J. Cox Ph.D, November 1990, IEEE Software magazine

"The possibility of a software industrial revolution, in which programmers stop coding everything from scratch and begin assembling applications from well-stocked catalogs of reusable software components, is an enduring dream that continues to elude our grasp..."

Hi, Brad, LTNS.. What happened to the Software Industrial Revolution? I share your belief that it is definitely on its way, but, ten years later, it still hasn't put in an appearance! --Paul Morrison


My second book, "Superdistribution; Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier" addresses this. In short, there is no scalable way to get paid for small-granuarity objects made of bits. Without that, no markets, no components, no change.


Hey Brad ... I was just doing some stuff with Lakoff and "framing"; coincidentally here, rereading pages related to threading and such, found your link to "Social Construction of Reality". Coincidental for another reason: I just recovered working notes for a paper on "Postmodernist Challenges to Historiography" (the title was supposed to be satirical); I just uploaded them to use as an experiment in use of Wiki Think, see bentrem.sycks.net --Ben Tremblay


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