I disagree, "everything is a string" makes for sloppy programs. Programmers should be learning languages with good type systems if they want to build anything l

I disagree, "everything is a string" makes for sloppy programs. Programmers should be learning languages with good type systems if they want to build anything larger than some simple glue scripts. I interned at a large company which had hundreds of thousands to millions of lines of Tcl scripts to customize an engineering package they use. It was a complete nightmare. It would be preferable to have less of those in the future.