[Courses] [C] Current topic: variables in C.

Charlotte Oliver charlotte.oliver at rcn.com
Sun Jun 9 02:02:56 EST 2002


On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:36:14PM -0600, Val Henson wrote:
> Oo, here's a good question:
> 
> "Why does C have this nasty int, char, long stuff?  Why didn't they
> just say 8_bit_type and 16_bit_type instead of all these complicated
> rules about int being at least 2 bytes but less than or equal to long,
> etc., etc., etc.?"
> 
> If anyone is interested, pipe up.

Sure!  Why didn't they just make them more simplistic, or does that
have to do with features being added over time?

Charlotte




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