strongly typed?
Aug. 28th, 2025 02:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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What does it mean when someone writes that a programming language is "strongly typed"?
I've known for many years that "strongly typed" is a poorly-defined term. Recently I was prompted on Lobsters to explain why it's hard to understand what someone means when they use the phrase.
I came up with more than five meanings!
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