Kristian,
Now that I think it over, I do not remeber seeing a 64-bit integer type in any high-level application language. Perl does not have it, Javascript does not. I think Java used to not have it, maybe it's been included in Java/.NET by now. I don't think PHP has it either, not sure about PHP/Python?
Java has had long for a while now. The problem that java has with integer types is that they're all signed, not that they're not available ;-) .NET has both signed and unsigned 64-bit integers.
Javascript doesn't even have an integer type as far as I know. It has Number, which is a double-precision floating point type. The language specification thinks of integers as Numbers that are mathematical integers, and there are a bunch of functions that convert a Number to 32 bit integers or things like that, but their result is still a Number.
Python has a long type, but as with most implicitly typed languages, it's easy to overlook it. Integer math that results in numbers that don't fit in an int returns a long, so you don't really have to worry about it, but you can cast values to long and you can write long literals.
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