Amen, brother! I call this "weak typing". But some others use weak typing to mean different things (like "unsafe typing") [1]. Javascript, PHP and Perl are wea

Amen, brother! I call this "weak typing". But some others use weak typing to mean different things (like "unsafe typing") [1]. Javascript, PHP and Perl are weakly typed. Smalltalk, Lisp, Python, Ruby... are strong typed. But all of them are dynamic. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing#Predictability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing#Predicta...