Re: cocoa help
Re: cocoa help
- Subject: Re: cocoa help
- From: Karl Kraft <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:00:58 -0800
On Nov 10, 2003, at 5:03 PM, Prachi Gauriar wrote:
Actually, I think this is wrong. NS stands for NeXT-Sun, who worked
together to establish the OpenStep specification (which is basically
what Cocoa is now). NeXT used the NX prefix for their classes, like
NXColor (see NSColor documentation).
I interviewed early with Sun for their OpenStep product (I'm pretty
sure the NDA for this has long since expired), and I asked about
whether they were planning on changing the prefix from NS to something
else, since it originally stood for NextStep.
The answer was no, it was already too deep into all the documentation,
and wasn't worth the effort to change to OS, plus then they would have
to deal with all the incompatibilities introduced into all 3rd party
code, and the possible confusion with most people reading OS as
"Operating System." So the NS standing for NeXT-Sun is a bit of
revisionism history to explain why OpenStep had the prefix NS all over
everything. OpenStep was supposed to be an open specification, and not
tied to NeXT-Sun.
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