If you would have read the article; clearly states what you said in the first line of your comment. Also your professor maybe right, the distinct is less clear

If you would have read the article; clearly states what you said in the first line of your comment. Also your professor maybe right, the distinct is less clear when stated in those terms. It was never said that static typing is for robustness it does decrease the occurrence of runtime errors. I think the overall point was just to give insight on what people don't consider when making a programming language choice.