Early FORTRAN had no CHARACTER data type, only numeric types.
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Languages that have a dedicated character data type generally include character literals; these include Python or PHP . Languages without character data types will typically use strings of length 1 to serve the same purpose a character data type would fulfil.
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Languages that have a dedicated character data type generally include character literals; these include Python or PHP . Languages without character data types will typically use strings of length 1 to serve the same purpose a character data type would fulfil.
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Languages that have a dedicated character data type generally include character literals; these include Python or PHP . Languages without character data types will typically use strings of length 1 to serve the same purpose a character data type would fulfil.
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The typeless nature of B made sense on the Honeywell, PDP-7 and many older computers, but was a problem on the PDP-11 because it was difficult to elegantly access the character data type that the PDP-11 and most modern computers fully support.