I get what you mean, but I guess calling it the "C Standard Library" is really a historical holdover from times when the entire system was written only in C (wi

I get what you mean, but I guess calling it the "C Standard Library" is really a historical holdover from times when the entire system was written only in C (with the exception of a smattering of assembly). In the current context it should probably be called the "System Standard Library" and when you consider it like that, a system standard library in another language isn't all that weird. They all compile down to machine code anyway, so the Python-Perl analogy doesn't quite match.