Re: What does "NS" means ?
Re: What does "NS" means ?
- Subject: Re: What does "NS" means ?
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 02:13:47 +0200
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.
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Ondra Čada
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