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You are aware that the standard library is a big part of the C specification, right?

• saagarjha 6y ago
  If you're counting the language by "how many pages of specification" it takes up, perhaps. To me is the language is really like the many features it had when it came out, and then the standard library improvements since then have been "string routines" and then "more string routines" and then "atomics, and also some string routines". Now C++, that's a language that has changed a huge deal–your C++03 code is obviously out-of-place in a C++11 codebase, but nobody will bat an eye if you drop some C89 code in a C11 project.
  • the_hoser 6y ago
    It sounds like you actually haven't been using C for very long, if that's what you think standard library changes amounted to. By your definition, it hasn't changed too much since the release of B in 1969.
    • saagarjha 6y ago
      I've used C for long enough to meaningfully contribute to this conversation. And yes, by my definition C takes much of its inspiration from B, although there are enough differences that I would not claim that B is some sort of release of C.