I just wanted to address your point that enterprise software does usually not involve dealing with numbers. When it comes to integers you are right - signed an

I just wanted to address your point that enterprise software does usually not involve dealing with numbers. When it comes to integers you are right - signed and 32 bits is a viable choice in north of 90 % of all cases. And when I wrote you should be able to make good decision about the number type to use I was already thinking of all the number types, however I did not express this well. But then I really don't see a lot of difference between being able to choose between integer, floating point and decimal types on the one hand and various integer types on the other hand.