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That's true. I think the tricky part is providing segregation where it's needed. That is, the problem is in supporting systems and programs which don't conform to the standard. Process segregation and scheduling is one way of solving this problem. Another is to simply enforce the design uniformly across the entire system. IIRC Plan9 does this slightly, but a better example may be a system which uses e.g., Haskell as the base language and simply requires all programs (modules) to be interfaced with the system with public facing symbols. A 'grep' IO monad may be an interesting way of linking and segregation.

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