Re: OT: Data Smog
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Baron Munchausen said:
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aiken said:
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Instar said:
The new Microsoft Shell looks cool (MSH or Monad). It might speed tasks up a lot.
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Holy dead cow, they invented /bin/bash! Again.
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With 'special features' of their own devising, of course. Embrace and extend, though it will suck anyway. I saw a hilarious sig on Slashdot a few days ago: The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
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Well, frankly, I think you're quick to judge. Have you watched all the videos on Channel9 and the .NET show? Monad looks killer. The shell is no longer a text stream so much, it can treat the output or input as objects which can be reflected against to expose internal members; also, access to the .NET framework is exposed too, IIRC. MSH looks 10x better than anything out today (and I've used a lot of systems, Solaris, Wintel, Linux, Apple 2e  )
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