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Re:Myths of Enterprise Python by pythonautical on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:09PM (#9264778)
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JS and PHP are the prototypical examples of weak typing.

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Re:Myths of Enterprise Python by serve_yay on Saturday March 28, 2015 @12:11AM (#9280480)
Again, not sure about PHP. But no, JS is strongly typed. What you've shown there is coercion, not type-punning or anything of the sort.
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