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    C#'s primitive int data type does have methods... Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 15:30
  • Could you give an example? Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 15:40
  • var myString = 3.ToString(); (see Int32.ToString()). Note that int in C# is a synonym for Int32, i.e., Int32 is a primitive type (unlike Java, where Integer is different from int). Thus, 3.ToString() in C# does not involve boxing! Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 16:08
  • That's very interesting; the link you provided indicates that 'int' is really an object of the class 'Int32' (or maybe a combination of the primitive and a wrapper class), so by the definition I put: 'int' is not a primitive. :) Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 20:09
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    @barlop: Java is not descended from C++. If Herbert Schildt can't even get such a simple fact straight, I'm not sure I would trust the rest of the book either. Patrick Naughton, original designer of Java, was a huge Objective-C fan. In fact, he had already given notice to work on Objective-C at NeXT, when Scott McNealy convinced him to stay at Sun and design a new language. James Gosling, the other original designer, was very familiar with Smalltalk (direct ancestor of Objective-C) and Lisp (inspiration for Smalltalk). Later on, several members of the Objective-C design team moved to Sun. Commented Apr 20, 2014 at 2:27