6 Apr
2006

Monad Silliness

I just help but thinking that the earth has tilted on its’ axis.  Monad
has 2 extremely unimportant, but highly striking features that I just have to mention. 
You might think that I would have something

  1. The ls command is supported.  Specifically, ls == dir
    Who would have thunk it?  I don’t know if it is an alias or a pipe through
    to the dir commandlet, but it works.  Now for something fun, try ls |
    sort
    , but that’s another day.
  2. Back and forward slashes are both allowed.  When you type in a path using Unix
    style pathing to a commandlet that interprets it for some reason, the path is emoted
    back to you with the traditional back slashes.  Now, this isn’t exactly
    the same as “using” forward slashes, but at least inputting forward slash
    path separators is supported. 

    Of course this pathing behavior makes sense because the forward slash separator is
    supported by the .Net framework, and the commandlets are all little .Net classes.

As I said earlier, the earth is tilting on its axis as a result of these 2 simple
little features.