> In particular, the desire to cram increasingly diverse and rich interfaces into 70s file IO is a strange sacrament Long time ago I asked my karate sensei how

> In particular, the desire to cram increasingly diverse and rich interfaces into 70s file IO is a strange sacrament Long time ago I asked my karate sensei how come I see some of the black belts doing katas in a different way. His answer was that to improve on something one must first have deep mastery of how it is done. (i.e. "Shut up and do the katas correctly. If you ever get to black belt then you can improvise.") Always found that answer to apply to everything. In particular it applies to a lot of the poor quality libraries and code we see today as a direct consequence of not understanding the past and what has been tried and failed and why. The fact that we're talking in 2024 about using the file abstractions of Unix created in the 70s is proof of how extremely powerful they are. Nothing is perfect, but that's quite an achievement.