How could two developers take a compelling concept like shell scripting for Windows and turn it into a barely tolerable presentation? Well, these guys did it. They introduced themselves as developers, but they acted all the world like marketing shills. I nearly walked out of the presentation several times.

However, Monad really is compelling stuff. It’s kind of like the Perl for Windows, providing a combination of capabilities and rules for allowing someone to tie just about any technology into the command line and Monad’s scripting engine. I’ll be downloading the (now available) Monad beta and giving it a try. It’s too bad it won’t be shipping with Vista, though the shills were hoping that decision may change. I’d think that was a possibility, now that both are in beta.

9/14/2005 9:45:03 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)      Comments [0]  PDC 05