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	<title>Comments on: Ruby is strongly-typed, until you want to weaken it.</title>
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	<description>It&#039;s too real to be true</description>
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		<title>By: Josh Graham</title>
		<link>http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/01/03/ruby-is-strongly-typed-until-you-want-to-weaken-it/comment-page-1/#comment-453</link>
		<dc:creator>Josh Graham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL anonymous coward, let me know who you are so I can give you a clue bat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL anonymous coward, let me know who you are so I can give you a clue bat.</p>
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		<title>By: qwerty</title>
		<link>http://grahamis.com/blog/2008/01/03/ruby-is-strongly-typed-until-you-want-to-weaken-it/comment-page-1/#comment-452</link>
		<dc:creator>qwerty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Um, no.

You aren&#039;t weakening anything because guess what? You call to_s which returns a new String object.

Your second example is even more ridiculous and you can do the same thing in any OO language.

Crappy programming doesn&#039;t make a language &quot;less&quot; anything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um, no.</p>
<p>You aren&#8217;t weakening anything because guess what? You call to_s which returns a new String object.</p>
<p>Your second example is even more ridiculous and you can do the same thing in any OO language.</p>
<p>Crappy programming doesn&#8217;t make a language &#8220;less&#8221; anything.</p>
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