Makes me think.. is the NS prefix in cocoa frameworks short for "newstruct"? I always wondered about that one.
> 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