It's just as well. Monad appears to suffer from severe second system effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sec

It's just as well. Monad appears to suffer from severe second system effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect ). The early demos I saw had hopelessly long names, verbose syntax, and attempted to coalesce data into xml. While xml seems like a more flexible target than plain text, the net result was that it took a foreign set of tools to manipulate xml from one command's output to what the next command wanted. In the spirit of "Get off of my lawn!": I wish that .vbs had been cultivated into a usable environment for interacting with the computer instead of left to be identified with malware. The language is/was certainly more appropriately sized for typical system automation tasks.