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Justification for posting this?
by JeremyBanks 16y ago
Justification for posting this?
- jonhendry 16y agoHaving started NeXTSTEP/Objective-C coding in the early 90s, and lived through the mid-90s near-death of the platform, I find it pretty remarkable that in 2011 a prime-time major network comedy had a whiteboard with "NSObject", etc, on it. (In the late 80s, early 90s NeXT hardware turned up in some pop culture locations due to how it looked: Mono NeXTStations in the Madonna video for Rain I don't know how I remember that, and a Cube in the movie Flatliners. But source code is something else entirely. Granted, given the recent cultural phenomenon of the iPhone, it's not that weird. But from a longer-term perspective, it feels a little like we're through the looking glass.)