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by varjag 1717 days ago
Consider that first Fortran (statically typed) and Lisp (dynamic) implementations date back to late 1950s. Since then there was a constant tug of war between these camps, including BASIC, COBOL, Smalltalk, Pascal, and trends falling in and out of favour.

All this however is rather orthogonal to the strengths of type systems. CL type system, for instance, is stronger than one of Java or C.