Life is a stream?

From	"MikeP" <mp011011@some.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Life is a stream?
Date	2011-05-30 22:25 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<is1n3n$397$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Programmers are enamoured with streams of bytes. Is that abstraction 
(i.e., generality) too rigidly modeled? I say, all IO (I/O?) is not 
alike, so why model it as if it is. What say you (y'all)?

Keywords and key phrases (why is "keyword" a compound word and "key 
phrase" two words?): stream of bytes, record IO, formatted IO, ASCII 
unit/record/group separator, compromise, designed for all cases but good 
for none (nothing),... other.

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Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-05-30 22:25 -0500
  Re: Life is a stream? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-30 23:55 -0700
  Re: Life is a stream? Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-31 02:50 -0700
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:19 -0500
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:51 -0500
  Re: Life is a stream? Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 09:29 -0700
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:54 -0500
  Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-31 20:43 +0100
    Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:22 -0500
      Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-01 21:53 +0100
        Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:56 -0500

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