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[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> "Standard library" is normally meant to be that library that is always 
> installed with pd.

I mean, "Standard library" is not a term normally in use in the pd world, 
but transposing the meaning from Perl, Python, Ruby, etc., the standard 
library is what is bundled and is pretty much guaranteed to be bundled all 
of the time.

For the C language, libc.so is called like that, together with libm.so and 
sometimes a few other more, but it's nothing remotely like "the set of all 
publicly contributed C libraries ever written".

Likewise CPAN is not Perl's standard library; Perl's standard library is 
the set of *.pm and *.so files that are part of the Perl package itself. 
This may include what is in libperl.so itself or not, depending on 
definitions.

The situation for other languages is quite closely the same.

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