Carbon wasn't presented that way in the beginning. They were supposed to be the three equal pillars of OS X development. Carbon was the C-based procedural frame

Carbon wasn't presented that way in the beginning. They were supposed to be the three equal pillars of OS X development. Carbon was the C-based procedural framework, Objective-C was the object-oriented framework, and Java was, well, the Java framework. That's why they have drink-themed names to fit with Java. Porting a classic Mac app to Carbon was called "Carbonization."