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Re:How to write an iOS app purely in C by pjbrunet on Friday June 06, 2014 @10:54PM (#7861113)
@mikeash I don't need the history, I lived through that era. Did you even read the whole Wikipedia entry?

"The NeXT Computer was not a great commercial success" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer

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Re:How to write an iOS app purely in C by 178 on Saturday June 07, 2014 @01:22AM (#7861384)
It might not have been a "commercial success", but one has to appreciate the irony of you arguing against the impact of NeXT while using a medium that was invented/first developed on this platform:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg

Disclaimer: I am younger than any technology mentioned in this thread.

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