I get what you mean, but I guess calling it the &quot;C Standard Library&quot; 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 &quot;System Standard Library&quot; and when you consider it like that, a system standard library in another language isn&#x27;t all that weird. They all compile down to machine code anyway, so the Python-Perl analogy doesn&#x27;t quite match.