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remove FIXME on PHP, it has been double-checked [h/t JH]

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Mark Pilgrim
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<dd>A language in which types are always enforced. Java and Python are strongly typed. If you have an integer, you can't treat it like a string without explicitly converting it.
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<dt>weakly typed language</dt>
<dd>A language in which types are &#8220;automagically&#8221; coerced to other types as needed; the opposite of strongly typed. <abbr>PHP</abbr> is weakly typed. In <abbr>PHP</abbr>, you can concatenate the string <code>'12'</code> and the integer <code>3</code> to get the string <code>'123'</code>, then treat that as the integer <code>123</code>, all without any explicit conversion. [FIXME double-check this]
<dd>A language in which types are &#8220;automagically&#8221; coerced to other types as needed; the opposite of strongly typed. <abbr>PHP</abbr> is weakly typed. In <abbr>PHP</abbr>, you can concatenate the string <code>'12'</code> and the integer <code>3</code> to get the string <code>'123'</code>, then treat that as the integer <code>123</code>, all without any explicit conversion.
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<p>So Python is both <em>dynamically typed</em> (because it doesn't use explicit datatype declarations) and <em>strongly typed</em> (because once a variable has a datatype, it actually matters).