Re: What does "NS" means ?
Re: What does "NS" means ?
- Subject: Re: What does "NS" means ?
- From: Dan Saul <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 03:57:32 -0500
Well you learn something every day :) .
On 21/05/05, Ondra Cada <email@hidden> wrote:
> Martin,
>
> On 21.5.2005, at 20:37, Martin Ottenwaelter wrote:
>
> > I'm new to Cocoa and there is one thing I would like to know, so
> > that I don't feel stupid...
> > I'm hearing of "NSTextField", "NSTime", etc... but what does "NS"
> > stands for ?
>
> Although it is not important at all, it does *not* mean NeXTStep, as
> some would say.
>
> There used to be a lot of classes of NeXTStep ages ago; these classes
> used to have a prefix NX (NX for NeXt).
>
> A few years later (than the NX- thingies was used), NeXT and Sun
> (yeah, strange as it sounds, indeed the very same company who later
> proved they don't know jacksh*** of object design with the Java
> crap!) designed a quite nice open (!) definition of a truly object-
> oriented application API. The thing was called OpenStep, and it used
> consistently an NS- prefix for "Next-Sun".
>
> The Cocoa of today is a direct successor of OpenStep. It extended it
> considerably, and it limited it here and there; the result, I admit,
> *is* better than the original OpenStep used to be. Nevertheless, it
> is not open anymore. Still, it keeps the original NS- (Next-Sun)
> prefixes.
> ---
> Ondra Čada
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>
>
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