Re: Humor fromkipedia

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
[...]
> But you are right: The text should be changed - It's obviously a plug from
> the Java comunity to make Java look in a better light as Java's type safety
> is a joke - i.E. Java has no distinct integer and real types.

Yes, it does, as you can see from the URL you quoted:

[...]

>   Ada:
>     http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Subtypes
>     http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types
>   Java:
>     http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/Types

(Oddly, the table for Java types omits int.)

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