Why doesn’t Java support unsigned ints?

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This is from an interview with Gosling and others, about simplicity:

Gosling: For me as a language designer, which I don’t really count myself as these days, what “simple” really ended up meaning was could I expect J. Random Developer to hold the spec in his head. That definition says that, for instance, Java isn’t — and in fact a lot of these languages end up with a lot of corner cases, things that nobody really understands. Quiz any C developer about unsigned, and pretty soon you discover that almost no C developers actually understand what goes on with unsigned, what unsigned arithmetic is. Things like that made C complex. The language part of Java is, I think, pretty simple. The libraries you have to look up.

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