I never really understood how the developers and maintainers of the Java language could put up with the overly complicated disaster that is file I/O. They've ma

I never really understood how the developers and maintainers of the Java language could put up with the overly complicated disaster that is file I/O. They've managed to take something that's relatively simple in most languages and turn it into an utter disaster. I was shocked, years ago, when I was learning Java after having lived in C++ world.