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They're all weakly typed languages but C is statically typed.


Python is generally considered quite strongly typed, though dynamic. That is because Python has relatively few implicit conversions, and especially few that are surprising ("1" + 1 is an error, not 2 or "11"; and unsigned short + unsigned short does not equal a signed int).


I think parent didn't say anything to the contrary, or maybe it was edited?


First iteration was didn't include the part about haskell/ocaml.




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