Lee Ho Suk

The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 1883-1895, Jul. 1998
10.3745/KIPSTE.1998.5.7.1883,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Java is considered a general-purpose concurrent object-oriented programming language. Its syntax is similar to C , but it omits many of the features of C . Java is a strongly typed language. The types of the Java language are divided into two categories : primitive types and reference types. Primitive types are boolean type and integral types. Integral types are byte, short integer, integer, long integer, single-precision and double-precision floating point numbers. Reference types are class types, interface types, array types. Java does not explicitly support structure type which general-purpose programming languages universally support. Instead the class type in itself conceptually incorporates the structure type. Therefore the programmer has to use class type whenever the structure type is considered to be more appropriate for the simple structuring of related data types. But the class type and the structure type are considered to be different data types. So this paper argues that Java must explicitly support the structure type so as to be necessarily considered as a general-purpose programming language.

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