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When I first started Mac OS X development, and later iOS, interface Builder and Objective C were a revelation. To this day, “NS” (for NeXTSTEP) prefixed classe
by gdubs 7y ago
When I first started Mac OS X development, and later iOS, interface Builder and Objective C were a revelation. To this day, “NS” (for NeXTSTEP) prefixed classes can still be found in the mac frameworks. The company may have ‘failed’, but the ideas succeeded. (And given how much Steve’s companies were an extension of himself, ‘failed’ is subjective here — in the end, it was through NeXT that Jobs won back Apple.)
- mepian 7y agoAs far as I know, "NS" actually stands for "NeXT and Sun", and the original prefix before OPENSTEP was "NX".
- gdubs 7y agoHad to do some googling, which led me full-circle back to HN :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977053
- mepian 7y agoInteresting, the explanation that it stands for "NeXT Software, Inc" that came up in the parent thread seems plausible.
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- ci5er 7y agoI always loved the clever phrasing: "NeXT bought Apple for a negative $430M and 1.5M of Apple Stock Shares in 1997."