[TUHS] Non-US Unix Activities

Tim Bradshaw tfb at tfeb.org
Mon Apr 10 23:10:26 AEST 2017


On 10 Apr 2017, at 06:40, Robert Swierczek <rmswierczek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The lack of types is closer
> to the machine

It's not: it's further.  Languages like BCPL and B were fine for word-addressed machines which had really one type in the hardware, but modern machines are a seething mass of types: four or more integral types, two or more float types, at least.


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