Why is C# statically typed?

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Published on 2009-05-13T17:05:27Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 4:00 UTC
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I am a PHP web programmer who is trying to learn C#.

I would like to know why C# requires me to specify the data type when creating a variable.

Class classInstance = new Class();

Why do we need to know the data type before a class instance?

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