I’m was surprised to hear that Monad has generated so much
interest, yet at the same time the attention is so germane. As far as I know the
semantics of the command line haven’t changed much since Doug
McIlroy came up with the pipe, yet I know
of no gifted programmer or admin who doesn’t appreciate the command line. MSH
is one of the most exciting technologies to emerge over the last year
and it’s one of only two Microsoft betas I’ve ever downloaded and used. I don’t
hear people ranting about it on too many forums so I assume it’s kind of
a silent (serious) majority thing. I think it's going to be a wonderful surprise for so many IT pros out there.
Ace work Jeffery!
In this video, and one of his previous ones, Jeffery talks about
economics, he also mentions Jim Hugunin’s Iron Python project (the other beta I’ve
downloaded and used). Now, Jim’s work is open source, open source is a hot
topic a lot of figures comment on, and open source has an interesting economic aspect
that people debate (and companies like Apple and Google use to great commercial
advantage). I’d love to hear Jeffrey’s views on open source; I believe he’d
have something interesting to say.
Go on Scoble, can you ask when you go back to do the team
tour? Please?
Does everyone else love these interviews with people like
Ward C. and Jeffery as much as I do? I love it when the interviewee is happy to go off on interesting tangents.