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by s_tec 2698 days ago
Exactly. Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C, it looks like `void *`, while in Java, it's `Object`. The `any` keyword is just the latest in a long line of escape hatches. Pretty much every language has one.
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> Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C

C is clearly statically typed, but among statically typed language it is quite weakly typed.