What is the difference between data type, abstract data type and data structures?
A data type tends to mean a primitive data type. Primitive data are built-in data types, such as integers, characters and Booleans. They are basic constructs of the language (that is, they are built into the language). Primitive data also tends to be of a strict data type, meaning you can’t treat characters like integers or Booleans like integers, etc., although some languages will support implicit casting of primitive data types (for example, will treat Booleans like integers if you use a Boolean in an arithmetic operation). Abstract data types are generally constructed by the user or by a higher level language. For example, you might create a currency data type, which generally acts like a float but always has a precision of 2 decimal places and implements special rules about how to round off fractions of a cent. Abstract data types also often contain the ability to either be treated as a specific type of primitive data in certain circumstances (for example, many languages allow you
