# Is julia strongly checked(typed)?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-strongly-checked-typed/12990
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**Created:** [August 7, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-strongly-checked-typed/12990 "2018-08-07T13:33:17Z")
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> [@kristoffer.carlsson](#):
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> No, Julia is a dynamic language.

That’s largely unrelated. For comparison, Lisp is a strongly typed, dynamic language, while C is a more weakly typed static language.

Yes, Julia is a strongly typed language: it does not allow pointer arithmetic or type punning. (I’m too lazy to find a real reference, so I’ll just use [Strong and weak typing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing))

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