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From: pete <pfiland@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
    service attack.
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:46:37 -0400
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Richard Bos wrote:
> 
> pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > "The standard library is not part of the C language proper,
> > but an environment that supports standard C will provide
> > the function declarations and type and macro definitions
> > of this library."
> >
> > K&R2 appendix B
> 
> That's probably a leftover from the days of K&R 1, 
> when it was true. In ISO C, the Standard describes both the grammar
> and the library, and both are part of the language.

Then the phrases 
   "language and library" (C99)
and
   "language or library" (old C)
are unperspicuosly verbose where they appear in the standard.

-- 
 pete