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Murky Terms (Score:2)
- Perl is strongly typed, because there is absolutely, positively no way in Hell you can coerce a hashref into a listref or a coderef.
- Perl is weakly typed, because you really don't care what happens if you use an integer as a string, or a string as an integer. It all just works.
- Perl is statically typed because the compiler creates $foo as a scalar variable, and it will always remain so. $foo will never be a list, hash or subroutine.
- Perl is dynamically typed because $foo can hold an integer now, a string later, and a coderef in between.
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