D versus Objective C Comparison

[Nick Sabalausky]

"John Reimer" <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:28b70f8c139c58cb5508b9b1b790 at news.digitalmars.com...
> Hello Bill,
>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>>
>>> "Michel Fortin" <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote in message
>>> news:gmbt40$18pb$2 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>>> Perhaps it's offtopic in a D forum, but you should use the class
>>>> NSCharacterSet for that if you want to be efficient. There's a
>>>> couple of methods in NSString accepting NSCharacterSet too which you
>>>> may be interested in if you're writing a parser.
>>>>
>>> Nick Sabalausky is curious what the "NS" stands for in "NSString" and
>>> "NSCharacterSet"...?
>>>
>> I believe it is for "NextStep".
>>
>
> I'm pretty sure that is the case.  That's one element, though, that I find 
> annoying about the language libraries.  I think the notation looks ugly.
>
> Sorry Nick, it doesn't stand for "Nick Sabalausky". ;D
>

Dang, and here I was so sure I had created Cocoa and just forgot about it ;)

But seriously though, I would find that sooo distracting/confusing if I ever 
wrote anything in Cocoa, not just because of having the same extra couple 
letters prepended to everything, but because any time I see "NS" anywhere, 
my mind automatically parses that as "me". "What? I don't remember writing 
this...Oh, right."