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		zwp on May 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unix Magic Poster > Perhaps the crack in "B" is supposed to mean something. B was the _flawed_ predecessor to C. Wikipedia alleges a lack of types was the main issue that consequently drove C's invention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

colejohnson66 on May 4, 2021 [–]

Well, when everything is a single word representing either an integer or a memory address, things like char, short int, int, long, and long long don’t make much sense. The flip side is: types allow things like structs and more.

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