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August 16, 2005
"I can't believe it. He was always such a stateful monad..."
The self-dubbed "Swiss Army Knife of Admin Tools" that Microsoft, for reasons which I am very curious about, has code-named Monad, seems quite the little bag of tricks. It's a command shell, it's a scripting language, it's a strongly-typed object-oriented .NET language, it's interpreted, it's dynamic, it's scriptable, it's a bird, plane, a bit of cheese, and your dessert.
Now, as to the name, all I might wager is this. Objects know their states, and the states of others, better than the text that current command lines must parse in order to pipe and slice. This makes the user the Chief Monad of the system, arranging objects into a pre-existing harmony of computery goodness. Eat it, Voltaire.
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