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From: kolbjorn.aambo@ub.uio.no (Kolbjørn Aambø)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: 64 bit signed ints like in Java, long long as in C
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:43:27 +0200
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Now that Mjolner have decided to implement Unicode strings there are only
two aspect of the Beta language that prevent me from using it for somthing
futuristic; 

1) it lacks 64 bits integers. Since such animals are allready implemented
in std C libraries of resent OS implementations as well as many
C-compilers, I have promlems realizing why this is not part of Beta
Version 5 also. 64 bits integers are among other things used for disk file
positioning and 64 bit's date/time representation. 

2) One small last thing. If one of BETA's standard libraries could tell in
runtime whether it's running on a big endian or little endian machine,
that would solve most of my problems when it comes to endianness.

Could you please reconsider? 

Best wishes

Kolbjørn Aambø, Norwegian National Library