Yet language still takes time to adapt. Formally, it takes years for words to enter the dictionary. Informally, it takes time for new vocabulary to spread. For

Yet language still takes time to adapt. Formally, it takes years for words to enter the dictionary. Informally, it takes time for new vocabulary to spread. For example, in the early days of computers, it was very common for terminology to be used incorrectly. Of course, there is more going on with C than the use of new "words" introduced through libraries. Even though it is viewed as a portable language, most of that portability is between hardware architectures and operating systems of the same class. Almost everything above that is handled by vendor specific libraries so there was likely less of a drive to standardize on library management. This has negative consequences in today's environment, but it would have taken foresight to predict that outcome.