On 23 Sep 2009, at 06:39 , Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
That said, I think Masklinn is being unreasonable. Although there surely are more folks like him who refuse to accept any notion of "strength of typing", I think most people would be in rough agreement as to which direction the axis points.
I might very well be unreasonable, but I've seen too many discussions of "strong" & "weak" typing degenerate into uselessness (all of them, really) to still consider them worth having, or still consider the concept of weak/strong typing worth talking about until somebody comes up with a precise and formal taxonomy which people will be able to use when discussing the matter. Until then, discussion on the subject will be as enlightening and relevant as discussing which of hydrogen plasma and U-235 tastes the best.