weakly-typed

Is it considered bad to explicitly check for the boolean true. Would it be better to do a simple if(success) ? I've seen various jokes made about how if (someBoolean === true) is horrible code in a strongly typed language but is it also considered bad in weakly typed languages? This would apply for any weakly typed language that does type coercion on an if statement. A specific example would be : var onSuccess = function (JSONfromServer) { // explicitly check for the boolean value `true` if (JSONfromServer === true) { // do some things } } // pass it to an ajax as a callback doSomeAjax

To quote Wikipedia : Two commonly used languages that support many kinds of implicit conversion are C and C++, and it is sometimes claimed that these are weakly typed languages. However, others argue that these languages place enough restrictions on how operands of different types can be mixed, that the two should be regarded as strongly typed languages. Is there a more definitive answer? Norman Ramsey "Strongly typed" and "weakly typed" are terms that have no widely agreed-upon technical meaning. Terms that do have a well-defined meaning are Dynamically typed means that types are attached to

I think I understand strong typing , but every time I look for examples for what is weak typing I end up finding examples of programming languages that simply coerce/convert types automatically. For instance, in this article named Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic says that Python is strongly typed because you get an exception if you try to: Python 1 + "1" Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' However, such thing is possible in Java and in C#, and we do not consider them weakly typed just for that. Java