Why is C# statically typed?

Question

I am a PHP web programmer who is trying to learn C#.

I would like to know why C# requires me to specify the data type when creating a variable.

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Answer 1

In C# 3.0, you can use the 'var' keyword - this uses static type inference to work out what the type of the variable is at compile time

var foo = new ClassName();

variable 'foo' will be of type 'ClassName' from then on.