This is an odd question to read. The first programming language I learned* was C and types were so fundamental that you HAD to learn them if you were going to d

This is an odd question to read. The first programming language I learned* was C and types were so fundamental that you HAD to learn them if you were going to do anything at all. So now I wonder, do people really spend so much time in weakly typed languages that types seems to be a special concept? Or is there something about types that has gotten so complex that its worthy of extra study? *I did do some BASIC as a middle schooler but it didn't stick. C did.