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Monad is the new command shell in Longhorn. This is supposed to have alias and pipe a la Unix shell. But it looks like it will leapfrog the Unix shell in functionality. The commands are called 'commandlets' The can query WinFS and get back real .Net objects. These can be manipulated and the results can be exported to HTML. XML, Excel or plain text.

"A monad is a concept originally from Category Theory, which is extensively used in Functional Programming (especially Haskell), which does exactly what you describe - string together a set of stateful computations." Michael Arnoldus (Reference: http://www.abercrombiegroup.co.uk/~noel/research/monads.html)

The coolest thing is they are working on Intellisense for the shell!!

Update: Want to check out Monad? Go to http://www.betaplace.com/ (Guest ID: mshPDC). Have fun.

Sources: [Philip Rieck] [Jason Nadal]