>There are lots of pros and cons for both loosely typed and strongly typed languages. I've never found there's less code in a loosely typed language.
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>>Writing less code is, that why I keep away from anything strongly typed . Having to type hints and keywords for keeping the compiler happy is not my favourate hobby.
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>>Thats one of the reasons that I'll be looking into products like windev, lianja and Servoy. Less code to be written and excellent platforms to do RAD development.

I agree, there are pros and cons, though I argue strongly that heavy reporting applications benefit greatly from strong typing. And much of the work I do is on the analysis/OLAP side these days, so it's not even an argument - semantic models are, almost by definition, strongly typed.