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In one of James Gosling's talks he tells a funny story about the origin of this design decision. He went around the office at Sun and gave a bunch of seasoned C
by mightyham 1y ago
In one of James Gosling's talks he tells a funny story about the origin of this design decision. He went around the office at Sun and gave a bunch of seasoned C programmers a written assessment on signed/unsigned integer behaviors. They all got horrible scores, so he decided the feature would be too complicated for a non-systems programming language.
- fleventynine 1y agoNon-systems languages still need to interact with systems languages, over the network or directly. The lack of unsigned types makes this way more painful and error-prone than necessary.