To use the BCL type names or not?

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"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas:contacts" />Jeffrey Richter and I have an on going argument
that I thought you’d like to chime in on.
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In samples, books, etc should we use
the BCL type names (Int32, String, Single,
etc) or programming language specific type names such as in C# (int, string,
float, etc) or VB (Integer, String, Single, etc)?

Jeff believes that the sample code would
be clearer if it consistently used the BCL names. I believe that if the sample should
leverage the keywords of the language it is written in. The C# and VB language designers decided
to have a “pretty” name for these types as part of the language and I believe we
should respect that.

As an example what do you like
better:

Jeff’s way:

for (Int32 i = 42; i < 100; i++)
{ }

my way:

for (int i = 42; i < 100; i++) {
}