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In computer science, primitive data type is either of the following:[citation needed]
- 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.
- a built-in type is a data type for which the programming language provides built-in support.
In most programming languages, all basic data types are built-in. In addition, many languages also provide a set of composite data types.
— Wikipedia, Primitive data type (retrieved 27 July 2017)