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Re:JavaScript: The Curious Case of null >= 0 by mikebenfield on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:19PM (#15207731)
Yes, I've always understood this to be the correct terminology, but unfortunately in informal discussion among non-academically inclined software people, people use the terms wrong more often than they use them right. You get lots of people saying C is strongly typed (it certainly is not) and something like Scheme is weakly typed (it certainly is not).
Re:JavaScript: The Curious Case of null >= 0 by zzalpha on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:37PM (#15207804)
If you're really want a fun time, try having a conversation about "duck typing" some time... it was around the time that term became a thing that I realized no one seems to agree on what all these terms mean.