Was there a connection to the math/CS concept of "monad", or did Snover intentionally pick a name that would guarantee eveyone would be afraid of it?
from http://www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/10/01/monad-manifesto/
> I had had a number of conversations with our team in India where everyone shook their heads and smiled and seemed to get it but then the code clearly demonstrated that they had absolutely no clue what I was saying but weren’t telling me that.
> We tried a number of times to get very precise in our documentation but time and time again, it was clear that they just weren’t getting the concept
Wow, Microsoft Architechture Astronaut in a nutshell. He handwaves an idea, and then complains when someone actually writes some code and it doesn't match his imagination.
It's explained in Windows PowerShell in Action that is written by Bruce Payette, one of the PowerShell designers:
"before the first public release in 2006, the codename for this project was Monad. The name Monad comes from The Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the inventors of calculus. Here’s how Leibniz defined the Monad:
The Monad, of which we shall here speak, is nothing but a simple substance,
which enters into compounds. By “simple” is meant “without parts.”
—From The Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (translated by Robert Latta)
In The Monadology, Leibniz described a world of irreducible components from which all things could be composed. This captures the spirit of the project: to create a toolkit of simple pieces that you compose to create complex solutions."
