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How many times have you been told that Smalltalk has weak typing or is untyped? It's an old misconception from people who confuse type declarations with strong typing - the example I often give is that C and C++ are statically typed, but are also weakly typed - you can get the system to attempt an operation that it has no business attempting. Smalltalk is dynamically, but stringly typed - you get well understood exceptions when you try an illegal type operation.
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