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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T19:49:37+00:00 2026-05-13T19:49:37+00:00

Probably a silly question, because I assume the N stands for .NET, though I

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Probably a silly question, because I assume the N stands for “.NET”, though I could be wrong. I’m interested in where this naming convention got started.

Examples:

NHibernate
NLog
NCover
NDepend
Ninject (I realize this is supposed to be a play on “ninja”, but it still fits)

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    2026-05-13T19:49:37+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 7:49 pm

    usually it means that original project (without N) was done for dome different language/framework. F. e. NHibernate was inspired by Hibernate for Java. So N means .net. For NUnit there is a whole family, like pyUnit, JUnit, etc.

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