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Here's a plausible definition: Strongly typed languages disallow programs to escape the type system (e.g. put an integer into into memory, then treat it as a fl
by jholman 10y ago
Here's a plausible definition: Strongly typed languages disallow programs to escape the type system (e.g. put an integer into into memory, then treat it as a float, or vice versa, as in the famous Quake fast-inverse-sqrt hack.). Oh, look, Python is strongly-typed and C is weakly-typed.
Note that I do not endorse using "strongly-typed" to mean this definition, or any other. There are no useful definitions of this phrase, don't use it, except when correcting people.