i'm always amazed about the level of ignorance in the unix community about what's cooking in microsoft labs. such as the news that text streams may not be the final word for IPC in the shell. check out these demos of monad (courtesy of jon udell)

• navigating from objects to subobjects
• piping output to Excel
• data coercion in the pipeline
• errors as collections of first-class objects
• globbing and wildcarding alternate namespaces, with tab completion

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