>You know I respect your opinion and expertise. But I honestly don't get the distaste for strong typing (not limited to you). IMO it protects me from bugs before they happen.

Yeah, but at the same time you end about half the code for keeping the compiler happy. You also have to buy into all kinds of techniques that are not neccesary in dynamic languages (take ORM, or early binding com interfaces), reflection etc.

I just don't want to keep telling irrelevant stuff (for me) about the type of variables I'm going to use. If I want to do a SELECT * FROM WhatEverTable, I just wan't to use thaw result without going through casting, typed resultsets etc.

I want to concentrate on solving a business problem, not concentrate on telling the compiler what it could figure out at runtime.