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What does NS mean?
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I am just wondering. I see snippets of code all the time and am just wondering what does NS mean in it all.
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Originally posted by Truepop:
I am just wondering. I see snippets of code all the time and am just wondering what does NS mean in it all.
NeXTSTEP
Incidentally, nib stands for NeXT Interface Builder.
Source: p. 12 of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass.
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You'd think it stands for NeXTSTEP, but... nope. The NS prefix didn't come into use until after the operating system and toolkit lost that name. (Most of the early stuff didn't have prefixes -- the original root class was Object -- and some of the stuff from later in the NeXTSTEP days used the prefix NX.) The 'NS' prefix was introduced along with OPENSTEP, which led some to think it stood for 'NeXT + Sun' (OPENSTEP was a joint effort between those two companies). But that too is just conjecture... I don't think the prefix has ever been formally explained anywhere. Even if you ask some of the folks at Apple who were around back then you'll get different answers...
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Not Selling
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(Not selling no source. Never, silly!)
I thought it funny at the time. Sad, I know. 
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Just one day I was looking at some stuff that was sent to me and asked myself if NS meant NeXTSTEP.
One for yes (two if you count me)
One for I don't know
and One another.... 
Anyone else?
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Well, you know...just because NS didn't used to mean "NeXTStep" doesn't mean it can't mean that now. Similar to how PHP originally meant "Personal Home Page" but was changed to the [cooler] acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"...
*shrug*
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I thought it meant NeXT Software or something. But I'm probably wrong.
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Originally posted by Wevah:
Similar to how PHP originally meant "Personal Home Page" but was changed to the [cooler] acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"...
These cutesy acronyms are so stupid - a rip off of GNU (GNU's Not Unix) which was stupid to begin with. How 'bout "USA States of America"; "UK Kingdom"; "NBC Broadcasting Company" or, my favorite, "LASER Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?"
Pretty clever... 
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Originally posted by Wevah:
Well, you know...just because NS didn't used to mean "NeXTStep" doesn't mean it can't mean that now.
Well, the original question was asking why they used the prefix - I.E. what meaning did they apply to it. We can of course attribute any definition we deem appropriate but that is not interesting.
I vote for "NonSensical".
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It stands for No Sleep, to remind you all what the developers of the Cocoa frameworks had to go through to make them for you all.
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I vote for "No Sleep".
@_@
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I like "Not Selling" or "No Sales" personally.
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Not snappy 
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Stink different.
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LASER is not a recursive acronym. It stands for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
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Originally posted by chabig:
LASER is not a recursive acronym.
Um, none of those examples were actual recursive acronyms.
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Originally posted by chabig:
LASER is not a recursive acronym. It stands for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
I was actually being sarcastic. I don't really believe that USA stands for "USA States of America". I was trying to be absurd and suggest new recursive acronyms.
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I vote for netscape  
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Originally posted by Truepop:
I am just wondering. I see snippets of code all the time and am just wondering what does NS mean in it all.
Whatever it may actually stand for, it's a simple way of trying to reduce the possibility of multiple developers creating classes with the same name. So if everything in the standard set of Classes starts with "NS" other developers know that it's best to avoid creating objects that start with those two characters.
In fact, they could follow the same logic, and have their own semi-unique character sequence to avoid duplicate class names. Either their company initials, or their own name initials.
Hmmm... my initials are NS. Bugger!
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Originally posted by Brass:
Hmmm... my initials are NS. Bugger!
me too! it just means we have a special psychic NSConnection with cocoa...
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NS stands for Name Space. It's not just an acronym used by Apple. It is used in other APIs too.
(Last edited by teeroy; Nov 20, 2007 at 11:28 PM.
(Reason:title missing))
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In all honesty, I always thought it stood for NeXTSTEP. I guess not: Wikipedia claims that it stands for NeXT-Sun, like Rickster said.
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