Perry,

>I would consider Walter's argument about strong typing as a personal preference. When I first started to learn some VB many years ago, the "option explicit" which turns on strong typing was listed in training materials as the first thing you should turn on. Many, many, many find this to be a useful capability. Once again, I find it comical that Walter lists this ability as one of the things he doesn't like about .Net. It's a feature in .Net and Java. This pretty much encompasses a hugh majority of developers in the world. They don't seem to have too much problem with it.

You failed to get the point here (again). Do you remember my argument ?
Weak type languages can be developped in such manner that it will both carry the advantages of what you call strong typed languages but retain the flexibility and coding speed. Strong typing languages cannot by their vary nature. And this is a fact.

Hence my comments that strong typed languages are going to lose popularity in the near future.

Google on "Static typing" and "Dynamic typing" and you'll come accros many articles telling what I'm getting about.

Walter,