Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

3
  • Thanks :) Your answer is very informative , but I am unable to understand clearly . CAn you give some examples (probably with C/C++/Java) . Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 15:14
  • @Mason Wheeler This is where we use the term loose typing and strong typing. As i have heard people saying that VB is a loosely typed language while Java is a strongly typed one. Please confirm. Commented Mar 14, 2012 at 16:03
  • 3
    @Appy C++ ships with classes for strings, vectors, and maps. These are built-in they come with the language, are in the language definition etc. However they are written in C++ they come from the standard library. You could write your own that behaves identically. Compare this to an int or a char. You can't define your own char in C++. You could overload every operator on a class and get something that behaves similarly but not identically. This is a primitive. Basically something defined in a language that is not implementable in that language. Commented Mar 15, 2012 at 14:51