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To what extent is type theory relevant to dynamically typed languages?

There seem to be two conflicting views regarding the status of "type systems" used in dynamically typed languages: That dynamically typed languages are actually just unityped static ...
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What are the run-time implications of gradual typing?

Statically-typed languages specify the types of variables and functions and reject programs they know won't work before they run. Dynamically-typed languages don't include these annotations or checks, ...
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