Xmonad is a bit historically related to StumpWM, actually; a number of early users had been using StumpWM for the greater programmability over Ratpoison, but weren't all that keen on Common Lisp, so when dons decided to write a WM in Haskell... I was one of them, and even ported over some of the more popular extensions like search engine plugins (which were themselves originally modeled on 'surfraw', a package of shell scripts written mostly by a fellow named Julian Assange; everything is connected).
gwern|10 years ago