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Re: how to use unsinged long in java

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Arivald wrote:
> Joerg Meier pisze:
>> Lew wrote:
>>> The OP wrote:]
>>>> I was trying unSigned long but not working ..
>>> That should not surprise you.
> 
>> It surprises me how many people apparently learn to program by randomly
>> typing words into their text editor until one turns out to coincidentally
>> be something the compiler recognizes. It's like learning a second language
>> by pressing random letters until Word stops putting red squigglies under a
>> word.
> 
> Not really. If someone have experience in C++ or other languages, it is 
> natural to try same type names, expecting them.

Sure, insofar as it's "natural" to try anything utterly stupid.

Here's what's natural to actual computer programmers: looking it up.

For God's sake, the primitive type names are the most, well, primitive facts about the language!

And you make excuses for that baloney?

There's something unnatural there.

-- 
Lew

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how to use unsinged long in java Navneet Mathpal <navneetmathpal93@gmail.com> - 2014-03-13 23:53 -0700
  Re: how to use unsinged long in java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2014-03-14 00:31 -0700
    Re: how to use unsinged long in java Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-03-14 11:40 +0100
      Re: how to use unsinged long in java markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-03-14 09:40 -0700
      Re: how to use unsinged long in java Arivald <arivald_@AT_interia_DOT_.pl> - 2014-03-17 10:19 +0100
        Re: how to use unsinged long in java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 15:30 -0700
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  Re: how to use unsinged long in java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-03-14 08:42 -0700
  Re: how to use unsinged long in java Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2014-03-14 19:53 +0100

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