[vidarh]

Until it becomes difficult to work with and is perceived by someone as slowing them down, at which point someone will come up with the bright idea of typing the io channel to a suitable type for layering an untyped stream over.

[JonSolworth]

This is the reason why we believe the Tao--the way--is essential to an OS. It is the programming paradigms and use, combined with OS semantics, which is the genius of UNIX.