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From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
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In article <3B7CE3E1.6F80@mindspring.com>, pete wrote:
>Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> You simply have a narrow, weak idea of what constitutes a language.
>
>"The standard library is not part of the C language proper,

``C language proper'' !=  ``C language''.

Nice try!

>but an environment that supports standard C will provide
>the function declarations and type and macro definitions 
>of this library."
>
>K&R2 appendix B

Written by people with a clue.

And also note that the standard C library did originate as a separate
project: a user space library for general programming on UNIX.  Much of
that library was standardized by a group of people called /usr/group.
Their definition was split into parts that went into C and that went into
POSIX. So *historically*, it was true that the library was a separate
entity. It was codified into the language.