Microsoft's new CLI

An anonymous reader writes "Months ago a story ran regarding a job advert at Microsoft for a developer role to lead the work on a new generation of command line interface. It has now been disclosed at the PDC and its name is MSH (Microsoft SHell), codenamed MONAD. Here is the best description so far."

Comments

Re:Very Nice

[stratjakt]

Anyone who wants to do a bit of scripting on Windows has vbscript, javascript, perl, tcl/tk, and a plethora of other options.

This is going to be for headless servers. So you can ssh into a box and administer it remotely, or through a dumb terminal on a serial port, etc, etc..

There's no good reason your mailserver or each machine in your SQL Server farm needs a GUI.

Re:Very Nice

[Kingpin]

You get rated 'Insightful' for stating what OpenSource zealots hope. What if this shell actually knocks the socks off *sh?

What if Longhorn does indeed provide more security, not only in default settings, but more inherently in the OpenSource?

Do you think the average developer/manager at MS is dumber than your average OS participant? (This is not a tric.. Damn, I'm falling in myself..)

But really - if "we" are to compete, we will have to steal the ideas that "work" from MS camp, just as they're "stealing" "our" ideas that WORK.

Linux is narrowing the gap to MS on the desktop (albeit slowly), and MS is narrowing the gap to Unix on eg. CLI, stability and security. Their software matures too, you know..

And then there's Apple. They make fun stuff. The are not afraid to invent, and they have the money to launch stuff that the OpenSource movement cannot. I don't quite know where to place them compared to OpenSource and MS.

Re:The Best of All Possible Worlds

[shreak]

Voltaire's criticism and satire of Leibniz was centered around "the best of all possible worlds" premise. It had very little, if anything, to do with Libnitz's monads.

Monads were, essentially, philosiphical atoms or molecules, albiet in a very metaphysical sense.

=Shreak