[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-03-13 15:01, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-03-13, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 3/13/2023 9:32 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> Even better is to use uintXX_t unless you really want a signed integer. :-)
>>>
>>> A big mistake languages made (IMHO) was to make their integers signed
>>> by default, instead of you needing to ask for a signed integer if you
>>> really needed one.
>>
>> That is not really C specific.
>>
> 
> Notice I didn't say C, but "languages". :-)
> 
> I consider it a general design flaw in languages, probably based on the
> need to mirror underlying early architecture and then it just became
> established as the default.

I don't think there is anything in the underlying architecture that 
leads one way or another on this topic (no matter which architecture).

I think it's much more likely that the chose to have them signed as most 
people when they work with integers expect them to be able to represent 
both positive and negative numbers.

   Johnny