A brief tour into the realm of writing C and C++ applications, the role of the Standard Library and how it is implemented in various operating systems.

What are the C and C++ Standard Libraries?

By Triangles @ Internal Pointers

From the article:

I have been playing around with C++ for a while and one thing that always got me confused in the beginning was its anatomy: where do the core functions and classes I'm using come from? Who invented them? Are they packaged somewhere in my system? Is there a kind of official C++ manual around?