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by DeepDuh 5083 days ago
Makes me think.. is the NS prefix in cocoa frameworks short for "newstruct"? I always wondered about that one.
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    > Cocoa classes begin with the acronym "NS" (standing either for the
    > NeXT-Sun creation of OpenStep, or for the original proprietary term
    > for the OpenStep framework, NeXTSTEP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_(API)#Cocoa_history