By this definition, Julia is as strongly typed as possible: no automatic promotion or conversion is ever done for anything, including numbers. What appears to b

By this definition, Julia is as strongly typed as possible: no automatic promotion or conversion is ever done for anything, including numbers. What appears to be "weak typing" is a clever application of multiple dispatch system with built-in fallback methods for numeric operations. See http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/conversion-and-promotion/ http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/conversion-and-pr...