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In various articles I have read, there are sometimes references to primitive data types and sometimes there are references to scalars.
My understanding of each is that they are data types of something simple like an int, boolean, char, etc.
Is there something I am missing that means you should use particular terminology or are the terms simply interchangeable? The Wikipedia pages for each one doesn't show anything obvious.
If the terms are simply interchangeable, which is the preferred one?