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Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
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Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension


  • Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of .m extension
  • From: Mark Lilback <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:37:14 -0800 (PST)

> I remember this question being asked at Stump the Experts at WWDC a
> few years back. The official answer from the Apple gurus was that
> the .m stood for "messages".

The expert who answered the question was Steve Naroff, who wrote
the original front-end support for Objective-C for gcc. Someone came up
to challenge his response and and he pointed out that made the decision
to use .m as the suffix.

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