Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 22nd Apr 2007 20:06 UTC, submitted by ryan
Xmonad was announced today on the haskell-cafe mailing list. It supports multiple monitors through xinerama. The unique part of this window manager is that it is written in Haskell in under 500 lines. Haskell is a purely functional programming language with very strong static typing to ensure correctness.
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Lucky for him Microsoft dropped the "Monad" codename for their new shell already or he could have been ceased and desisted into another name.
Even with "monad" being a language concept from Haskel, and the wm's code containing a monad named X, and thus naturally referred to as "the X monad", leading to the name Xmonad being pulled directly from its own source code?
Yeah, I already know the answer - "This is Microsoft we're talking about."