Strong Typing

A sound type system guarantees that no type errors can occur at runtime. A language with such a system is called strongly typed. However,

• Some checks can only be done dynamically, e.g. array bounds checking.

• Such checking can cause serious performance degradation (factor of 2).

• Even so-called strongly typed languages often have ``holes'' in the type system, e.g. variant records in Pascal.

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