Comment by wmf
14 years ago
I had the impression that NeXT had very high coding standards[1] including endian-neutrality and processor portability; I guess that went by the wayside during OS X development.
[1] Perhaps too high, considering the failure of original NeXT.
What was Apple supposed to do, fire all of their existing PPC C++ programmers and hire a whole new team? No, they utilised their existing resources very effectively to finish the Mac OS X project in surprisingly short time. Apple made the smartest possible move considering commercial realities.