In 1977, K. Jackson wrote, "In a strongly typed language each data area will have a distinct type and each process will state its communication requirements in terms of these types." Definitions of "strong" or "weak" A number of different language design decisions have been referred to as evidence of "strong" or "weak" typing.

weak typing ( uncountable ) ( computing, programming) A system that does not place any restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.

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See full list on en.wikipedia.org. The term "weak typing" is largely meaningless, in that it conflates dynamically typed languages such as JavaScript with languages such as C that simply have no type safety (or are type-safe only at the memory-is-a-sequence-of-bytes level). Clements (talk) 06:59, 6 January 2009 (UTC) 1.

Most uses of "strong" and "weak" on the web are vague and ill-defined value judgements: they're used to say that a language is "good" or "bad", with the judgement dressed up in technical jargon. As Chris Smith has written: Strong typing: A type system that I like and feel comfortable with. Weak typing: A type system that worries me, or makes me ...