What is Cocoa?

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Cocoa is an application environment for both the Mac OS X operating system and iOS.  It consists of a suite of object-oriented software libraries, a runtime system, and an integrated development environment. Carbon is an alternative environment in Mac OS X, but it is a compatibility framework with procedural programmatic interfaces intended to support existing Mac OS X code bases.

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