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> There is no agreed-upon definition of weakly and strongly typed; It is a nonsense word.

Sure there is. Strong typing means a language doesn't permit implicit type coercions.

> Any Haskell programmer would laugh at someone who calls Python strongly typed.

I'm sure lots of programmers are not particularly educated on the topic; it doesn't mean the word is 'nonsense'.



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