Seeking clarification on apparent contradictions regarding weakly typed languages

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Chapters
00:00 Question
02:39 Accepted answer (Score 211)
05:22 Answer 2 (Score 64)
11:25 Answer 3 (Score 19)
12:46 Answer 4 (Score 15)
13:40 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9929...

Question links:
[strong typing]: http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/OnUnders...
[Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic]: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.j...
[Weakly Type Languages]: http://www.i-programmer.info/programming...

Accepted answer links:
[This question was the subject of my blog on the 15th of October, 2012.]: http://ericlippert.com/2012/10/15/is-c-a.../
[Wikipedia]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_typi...

Answer 2 links:
[sigils]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_%28co...
[duck typing]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
[perlfaq4]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#Wh...
[perlobj]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlobj.html#An-...

Answer 4 links:
[the wikipedia article of Strong Typing]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_typi...

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