I understand the purity of this statement. I even wish it could be true. But without a standard library shipping with the language itself (today's approach to t

I understand the purity of this statement. I even wish it could be true. But without a standard library shipping with the language itself (today's approach to things) then who is going to implement this standardized IO addon that a whole lot of us need? The truth is that it just wouldn't otherwise get done. Maybe twenty years from now there will be committees working on separate modules and we'll download those if desired.