Re: Those clever people in Redmond.

In article <wwvfy6mkiw8.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard Kettlewell <rjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's not really a type any more. Analogously, we don't tell
compilers what any given 'int' represents; we tell humans, using its
name, context, documentation, etc.

This is a limitation of most current programming languages.

I refer you to the sig of this 1987 usenet posting:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.amiga/msg/79cd17c635fa3679

-- Richard
--
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.
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