I think if I could go back in time, my fix would be to make stderr the default. i.e. everything written 'out' goes to stderr until you explicitly write it as an

I think if I could go back in time, my fix would be to make stderr the default. i.e. everything written 'out' goes to stderr until you explicitly write it as an output to stdout (or another descriptor/file), the inverse of the current situation. (Ok, sure, I'd probably change the name too!)