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Microsoft's new CLI

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody-loves-the-cli dept.

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."

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  1. Hell? by infinite9 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    MSH (Microsoft SHell),

    Did anyone else read this as Microsoft's Hell?

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  2. .Net? Hey Miguel! by Linux_ho · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Since query results are .Net objects, maybe we can build a GNU shell like this based on Mono. Lessee, what to call it... MONAD... GNU... GONAD!

    GONAD will be pure innovation. What's that you say? Linux has had a powerful programmable shell with consistent behavior for over ten years? Oh MAN, I thought we had something NEW here.

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  3. MSH? by dauvis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I would have thought MSH == MicroSoft Hell

  4. Microsoft going the way of the UNIX by mnmn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why does it seem ever since they brought out WINNT 3.5, they have been trying to sneak their way into UNIX style architectures. win9x crapped out so they needed a better structured kernel with proper permission and process control. They ever sneaked in the BSD TCPIP stack.

    Brought out .NET to compete with J2EE, but really the COM and other RPC stuff in Windows are descended from Sun's RPC. Active Directory was brought in from other LDAP efforts, and using Microsoft's monopoly has been trampling other directory services like iPlanet and Novell AD.

    Funny now they're looking into CLI which will gradually seem more like bash since most of their CLI designers would be well-acquainted with UNIX, and their users too. As Microsoft will follow UNIX in innovation, the UNIX/Linux/BSD community will get greater credibility. Microsoft is undermining itself by not innovating fast enough.

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