> I suspect the reason Java did it was to not surprise C++ programmers. Solely dictated by marketing, not by technical reasons. C++ is actually more uniform th

> I suspect the reason Java did it was to not surprise C++ programmers. Solely dictated by marketing, not by technical reasons. C++ is actually more uniform than Java in this respect because it allows one to define new value types, and also allows heap-allocation of "primitive" types such as int.