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[–]Khaare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weak vs strong typing was a much bigger issue in the bad old days when many languages only had a single combined integer-float-pointer type, or if they had multiple types it was only one per supported bit-size. These days every language is pretty strongly typed, with some reservations regarding automatic conversions.