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runjake • yesterday at 3:33 PM
It is.
Citation: I was a NeXTSTEP developer.
ChrisRR • yesterday at 3:43 PM
Maybe you should've googled this before you commented
robin_reala • yesterday at 3:22 PM
I’m not a Mac developer: what does the NS stand for?
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waffletower • yesterday at 3:26 PM
It is; in MacOS NSText is a Cocoa API which arrived and evolved from NeXTstep.
Borgz • yesterday at 3:30 PM
Seems like most people think the NS prefix stands for NeXTSTEP. What do you think?
sleepybrett • yesterday at 3:46 PM
it absolutely is.
codepoet80 • yesterday at 3:31 PM
Tell me you're ignorant about computer science history, without telling me you're ignorant about computer science history.
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I'm pretty sure all the NS* calls and references in MacOS are from NextSTEP.