Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 01:23:56 01/11/03
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On January 11, 2003 at 02:10:45, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On January 10, 2003 at 21:34:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >Well, it survived 30+ years, so history is saying something. IMHO, the data >types had a lot to do with the success of the language. It allowed to write >portable and efficient code for diversed machines with completely different word >sizes, and I did not make that up, it really happened. > >The bottom line is that you do not like the data type structures but I do. >It is a matter of taste. > As I said earlier in the thread, having both kinds is not a problem. They are really orthogonal design concepts, and both can be present. They are in Ada. It was a good thing that C didn't force people to choose a specific width for their ints, but it was a bad thing that it didn't allow the programmer to specify the width when it was actually important. It is one of the very deep problems of C that almost everything a programmer writes is underspecified. In Ada you have a much better granularity of expressibility. /David
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