* String processing (if you want to tell me how a type system prevents string processing bugs, I'd love to hear it)
There's no such thing as a magic bullet, and the claim is way overstated. It might be less prone to bugs than loosely typed systems, that's something I'd have no problem believing. I'm a fan of strong typing myself.
* Bugs in underlying system calls
* I/O error handling
* String processing (if you want to tell me how a type system prevents string processing bugs, I'd love to hear it)
There's no such thing as a magic bullet, and the claim is way overstated. It might be less prone to bugs than loosely typed systems, that's something I'd have no problem believing. I'm a fan of strong typing myself.