Question: The right notation for a ode ?

Found in old studymaterial about Loka-volterra ode 

dsolve({D(N)(t)=r*N(t)-k*N(t)^2,N(0)=N[0]},N(t));

Seems to me not logical notation to use a D operator  : D(N)(t)  for this ode : makes it unneeded complicated this notation..or do i miss something?

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