You'll never get it because there isn't any. Static vs dynamic typing is largely a matter of preference despite all the hooting from the recent static typing fa

You'll never get it because there isn't any. Static vs dynamic typing is largely a matter of preference despite all the hooting from the recent static typing fad. I truly wish this "apparent truism" would go away, since it commonly turns to people flaming dynamic languages as somehow inherently lesser than those with big fancy type checkers.