What are primitive data types?

[artik]

What are primitive data types?

[Sulbha]

Hi Friends,
Generally, primitive data types include integers, floats/doubles, booleans, chars and sometimes strings depending on how the language defines them. When you start combining the primitive data types into structures is when you end up with complex data types.

While each language is likely a little different in what they define as a primitive data type, languages like Java define 8 primitive data types: boolean , byte , char , short , int , long , float and double.

[hextonbeecompany]

In computer science, primitive data type is either of the following: a basic type is a data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block. Most languages allow more complicated composite types to be recursively constructed starting from basic types.

[RHCalvin]

Primitive data type is either of the following: a basic type is a data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block. Most languages allow more complicated composite types to be recursively constructed starting from basic types.