Re: beginning Obj-C [LONG]
Re: beginning Obj-C [LONG]
- Subject: Re: beginning Obj-C [LONG]
- From: Henry McGilton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:37:03 -0700
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Pete Yandell wrote:
* On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 02:18 PM, David Thorp wrote:
* * by the way... what does NS (in all the object names,
* * eg. NSButton) stand for anyway?
* NextStep. I must say I've always been surprised that
* Apple didn't search-and-replace this with something
* else early on in the piece, but it's a nice nod to
* history at this point. :)
In the Good / Bad Old Days of NextStep, some classes were known
simply by their names --- Button, Slider, TextField, and so on.
Other classes were named with an NX prefix, such as NXImage.
Almost everything in those days had an 'NX' prefix --- NXRect,
NXPoint, and so on.
The 'NS' prefix appeared with the advent of OpenStep. I could
postulate that the 'NS' prefix comes from opeNStep, as opposed to
NextStep . . .
Best Wishes,
........ Henry
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