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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RE[2]: Interesting Project
by bogomipz on Mon 23rd Apr 2007 13:20
in reply to "RE: Interesting Project"
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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."
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2005-11-18
I think user adoption rate is a little far from the author's motivation. It seems that he had something in mind for himself and if others have a use for it too, then score. Otherwise, I doubt he cares if he ever shows up as a blip against the various other WMs out there.
Lucky for him Microsoft dropped the "Monad" codename for their new shell already or he could have been ceased and desisted into another name.
Edited 2007-04-23 02:33