More like: "we failed to notice the mistake C made of giving stupid meaningless names to types, rather than introducing meaningful names like int16, int32, int6

More like: "we failed to notice the mistake C made of giving stupid meaningless names to types, rather than introducing meaningful names like int16, int32, int64." When you say "int", you should get an integer - not an element of a (decided by the author arbitrarily) finite subset of integers.