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NamedGZipStream, Covariance and Contravariance

Favorite MSDN article title of the month: NamedGZipStream, Covariance and Contravariance.

That's Microsoft, as always, blending the sublime and the ridiculous.

(Thanks also for the bogus etymology of "covariance": "In mathematics, covariance is a measure of the degree to which two variables move up or down together. The term was co-opted by the OO crowd to describe..." Way to overlook category theory, guys!)