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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: I/O operations in programming languages
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Date: Sun, 28-Aug-83 12:43:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 28 12:43:55 1983
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Keep the IO *out* of the language if you want to write portable
code. No matter how wonderful your ideal concept of what bits,
bytes, and datastreams ought to be, no matter how aethetically
glorious your opinion of what a file is -- there are going to be
a lot of folk out there who have equally glorious ideas that are
out-and-out incompatible with yours.

And a lot of these folk build hardware. 

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura