Microsoft has announced the following: Developers can also expect a new scripting language for management applications, called Monad. Monad is an object-oriented language based on .NET, and provides command-line based management while enabling management services to be passed between different commands. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/16/microsoft_longhorn_server/ What a strange choice of name for a language...! :-) Malcolm
Hello Malcolm, Friday, September 16, 2005, 11:32:02 PM, you wrote: MW> What a strange choice of name for a language...! :-) really, a word Monad derived by mathemathics from philosophy and esoteric -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com
On 17/09/05, Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Malcolm,
Friday, September 16, 2005, 11:32:02 PM, you wrote:
MW> What a strange choice of name for a language...! :-)
really, a word Monad derived by mathemathics from philosophy and esoteric
-- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com
Recent mathematics apparently didn't take it from philosophy, that was
supposedly more of a coincidence. Before the term was adopted, the
triples
Malcolm Wallace
Microsoft has announced the following:
Developers can also expect a new scripting language for management applications, called Monad.
If we embedded the Monad language, as a DSL, into Haskell using a Haskell monad, would we get to call it the Monad monad? :)
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 20:32 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
Microsoft has announced the following:
Developers can also expect a new scripting language for management applications, called Monad. Monad is an object-oriented language based on .NET, and provides command-line based management while enabling management services to be passed between different commands.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/16/microsoft_longhorn_server/
What a strange choice of name for a language...! :-)
Quick, someone call the lawyers. :) Bernie.
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