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I found this article helpful. Since C is a "strongly typed" language it helps to review what is meant by type. In addition, like #DonaldPShimoda, I liked that the author challenged to the existing notions of type. Good read.


By all definitions, C is not strongly typed.

The author just points to selected links, without going to the links themselves. If you go to the link he points you to [1] where C typing is defined, you find that two of the three links there that claim C to be strongly typed are broken and the third link immediately qualifies the assertion with: "To be precise, relatively strongly-typed app-specific dialects of the not-very-strongly-typed language, C."

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?StronglyTyped




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