Static Typing - Type of variables must be declared at compile time (e.g.
C++)
Dynamic Typing - Type of variables determined from usage at runtime
(e.g. JavaScript) 
Strong Typing - Variables cannot be coerced to unrelated types. (e.g.
Java) 
Weak Typing -  Variables can be coerced to unrelated types. (e.g. C) 

These are the definitions I've seen in writings from academia over the
past few years. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@[...].com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:37 PM
To: Dare Obasanjo; xml-dev@[...].org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing


Dare,

I'm intrigued. How would you define "weak typing"?

Sean

At 12:05 12/02/2003 -0800, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> I'm impressed by the fact that neither the interviewer nor the 
> interviewer seem to be able to tell the difference between strong vs. 
> weak typing and static vs. dynamic typing. It is especially amusing to 
> see someone claim that Smalltalk is "weakly typed".
> 
> As for what this argument has to do with the XML arguments on strong 
> vs. weak typing I'd assumed it was obvious. The people who process XML 
> with strongly typed languages (e.g. Java & C# folks) are all about 
> strongly typed XML while those who process it with weakly typed 
> languages (Perl & Python folks) are for weak typing in XML. Or at least

> that has been the case in the XML-DEV discussions I've seen.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@[...].com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:20 AM
> To: xml-dev@[...].org
> Subject: [xml-dev] Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing
> 
> 
> An interesting interview with the great man himself, Guido van Rossum, 
> creator of Python. http://www.artima.com/intv/strongweak.html
> 
> Is the strong/weak/runtime typing argument over XML any different from 
> that debate in programming languages.
> 
> I dunno.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
> 
> 
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