Cameron's Pensieve

Further to my last post regarding what I like about Microsoft, where I mentioned PowerShell, readers would find the Monad Manifesto very interesting reading. It serves as a nice requirements analysis and roadmap to what Monad became (PowerShell).

I've been accused of being a Linux fanboy [edit: I prefer the term 'weenie'] at times, and a Mac weenie more recently, but in reality, I sit uncomfortably aware that every OS sucks! Some even blow at the same time.

If I'm a weenie of anything, (these days) it would most likely be (semi?) functional programming—disclaimer: I wouldn't use it for everything. You know, I've never really considered myself a programmer, more a scripter. That's one of the things that made me (quite frankly) rather good in a Unix environment; sh, sed, awk, perl etc. were all great friends; the type of friend that had lots of quirks and warts, wheezed regularly when you took them out for a run, and wouldn't particularly want to leave you back exposed to them for too long. In short, they weren't great, but they did (and still do) work, and they were/are still fun to play with.

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I saw this on LifeHacker and thought it was worth sharing, both to point out the utility of the content, and the utility of the delivery mechanism, SlideShare

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