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Re:Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? ... by gpderetta on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:24AM (#28059338)
Agree. Weakly typed is so loosely defined and subjective to be a completely useless adjective. It basically a synonym for 'language I dislike'.
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Re:Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? ... by goatlover on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:37AM (#28060271)
How about some languages allow implicit type conversions, and others do not.
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Re:Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? ... by iso8859-1 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:57AM (#28060472)
Is Scala weakly typed then because it has implicits?
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Re:Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? ... by goatlover on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @03:52PM (#28065448)
I don't know, but JS and PHP implicit conversions are widely acknowledged to cause plenty of issues, which Python and Ruby do not have since you have much fewer cases of implicit conversion.
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