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		rayiner on Oct 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft > a much better designed API without a 20-30 year old baggage. Apple's API dates back to the 1980s, just like Windows'. If you want to nitpick, Windows was developed in the early-mid 1980s while Next was developed in the mid-late 1980s.

LeoNatan25 on Oct 28, 2016 [–]

I mostly meant the software support baggage, but yes, indeed, so many of the Next concepts are still true today in Cocoa API design.

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