If you've only ever worked with weak typed languages you might be tempted to think that 'everything is/should be/can be a character string.' it's likely that t

If you've only ever worked with weak typed languages you might be tempted to think that 'everything is/should be/can be a character string.' it's likely that the author doesn't know about bitwise operators. This is similar to not knowing about modulus division (like in the classic 'fizzbuzz' test). Surprisingly, many developers just don't know about these things or if they do, they don't recall these features when designing a solution.