RE: Component: Strongly typed or Loosely typed is better?

[Erik Meijer]

> So, for a glue language, which one is better: a strongly typed language 
> like Haskell or a loosely typed language like Perl, Visual Basic,...?

Daan Leijen, Sigbjorn Finne, Simon Peyton Jones, Jim Hook, and myself have
written a number of papers where we argue that Haskell is a great glue 
language, and that types are good.

Erik