静态类型语言(如c++、Java)和动态类型语言(如Python)的区别仅仅在于变量类型的执行。 静态类型语言对变量有静态数据类型，这里在编译期间检查数据类型，因此调试要简单得多……而动态类型语言则不这样做，它会检查执行程序的数据类型，因此调试有点困难。

此外，它们有一个非常小的区别，可以与强类型和弱类型语言相关联。强类型语言不允许将一种类型用作另一种类型。C和c++…而弱类型语言允许例如python

不幸的是，术语“动态类型”具有误导性。所有语言都是静态类型的，类型是表达式的属性(而不是一些人认为的值的属性)。然而，有些语言只有一种类型。这些被称为单一类型语言。这种语言的一个例子是无类型lambda演算。

在无类型lambda演算中，所有的项都是lambda项，对一个项执行的唯一操作是将它应用到另一个项。因此，所有的操作总是导致无限递归或lambda项，但永远不会发出错误信号。

However, were we to augment the untyped lambda calculus with primitive numbers and arithmetic operations, then we could perform nonsensical operations, such adding two lambda terms together: (λx.x) + (λy.y). One could argue that the only sane thing to do is to signal an error when this happens, but to be able to do this, each value has to be tagged with an indicator that indicates whether the term is a lambda term or a number. The addition operator will then check that indeed both arguments are tagged as numbers, and if they aren't, signal an error. Note that these tags are not types, because types are properties of programs, not of values produced by those programs.

这样做的单一类型语言称为动态类型语言。

JavaScript、Python和Ruby等语言都是单一类型的。同样，JavaScript中的typeof操作符和Python中的type函数的名称具有误导性;它们返回与操作数相关的标记，而不是操作数的类型。类似地，c++中的dynamic_cast和Java中的instanceof不做类型检查。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system

Static typing A programming language is said to use static typing when type checking is performed during compile-time as opposed to run-time. In static typing, types are associated with variables not values. Statically typed languages include Ada, C, C++, C#, JADE, Java, Fortran, Haskell, ML, Pascal, Perl (with respect to distinguishing scalars, arrays, hashes and subroutines) and Scala. Static typing is a limited form of program verification (see type safety): accordingly, it allows many type errors to be caught early in the development cycle. Static type checkers evaluate only the type information that can be determined at compile time, but are able to verify that the checked conditions hold for all possible executions of the program, which eliminates the need to repeat type checks every time the program is executed. Program execution may also be made more efficient (i.e. faster or taking reduced memory) by omitting runtime type checks and enabling other optimizations. Because they evaluate type information during compilation, and therefore lack type information that is only available at run-time, static type checkers are conservative. They will reject some programs that may be well-behaved at run-time, but that cannot be statically determined to be well-typed. For example, even if an expression always evaluates to true at run-time, a program containing the code if <complex test> then 42 else <type error> will be rejected as ill-typed, because a static analysis cannot determine that the else branch won't be taken.[1] The conservative behaviour of static type checkers is advantageous when evaluates to false infrequently: A static type checker can detect type errors in rarely used code paths. Without static type checking, even code coverage tests with 100% code coverage may be unable to find such type errors. Code coverage tests may fail to detect such type errors because the combination of all places where values are created and all places where a certain value is used must be taken into account. The most widely used statically typed languages are not formally type safe. They have "loopholes" in the programming language specification enabling programmers to write code that circumvents the verification performed by a static type checker and so address a wider range of problems. For example, Java and most C-style languages have type punning, and Haskell has such features as unsafePerformIO: such operations may be unsafe at runtime, in that they can cause unwanted behaviour due to incorrect typing of values when the program runs. Dynamic typing A programming language is said to be dynamically typed, or just 'dynamic', when the majority of its type checking is performed at run-time as opposed to at compile-time. In dynamic typing, types are associated with values not variables. Dynamically typed languages include Groovy, JavaScript, Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, Perl (with respect to user-defined types but not built-in types), PHP, Prolog, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk and Tcl. Compared to static typing, dynamic typing can be more flexible (e.g. by allowing programs to generate types and functionality based on run-time data), though at the expense of fewer a priori guarantees. This is because a dynamically typed language accepts and attempts to execute some programs which may be ruled as invalid by a static type checker. Dynamic typing may result in runtime type errors—that is, at runtime, a value may have an unexpected type, and an operation nonsensical for that type is applied. This operation may occur long after the place where the programming mistake was made—that is, the place where the wrong type of data passed into a place it should not have. This makes the bug difficult to locate. Dynamically typed language systems, compared to their statically typed cousins, make fewer "compile-time" checks on the source code (but will check, for example, that the program is syntactically correct). Run-time checks can potentially be more sophisticated, since they can use dynamic information as well as any information that was present during compilation. On the other hand, runtime checks only assert that conditions hold in a particular execution of the program, and these checks are repeated for every execution of the program. Development in dynamically typed languages is often supported by programming practices such as unit testing. Testing is a key practice in professional software development, and is particularly important in dynamically typed languages. In practice, the testing done to ensure correct program operation can detect a much wider range of errors than static type-checking, but conversely cannot search as comprehensively for the errors that both testing and static type checking are able to detect. Testing can be incorporated into the software build cycle, in which case it can be thought of as a "compile-time" check, in that the program user will not have to manually run such tests. References Pierce, Benjamin (2002). Types and Programming Languages. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-16209-1.

静态类型:在编译时执行的类型检查。

静态类型语言的真正含义是:

必须指定变量的类型 变量只能引用特定类型的对象* 值的类型检查将在编译时执行，任何类型检查都将在此时报告 将在编译时分配内存来存储该特定类型的值

静态类型语言的例子有C、c++、Java。

动态类型:在运行时执行的类型检查。

动态类型语言的真正含义是:

不需要指定变量的类型 同一个变量可以引用不同类型的对象

Python、Ruby都是动态类型语言的例子。

*一些对象可以通过类型转换分配给不同类型的变量(在C和c++等语言中非常常见的做法)

静态类型语言(编译器解析方法调用和编译引用):

通常表现更好 更快的编译错误反馈 更好的IDE支持 不适合使用未定义的数据格式 当没有定义模型时，很难开始开发 更长的编译时间 在很多情况下需要编写更多的代码

动态类型语言(在运行程序中做出的决定):

较低的性能 更快的发展 有些bug可能只在稍后的运行时才会被检测到 适用于未定义的数据格式(元编程)

在静态类型语言中，变量与编译时已知的类型相关联，并且该类型在整个程序执行过程中保持不变。同样，变量只能被赋值为已知/指定类型的实例。 在动态类型语言中，变量没有类型，它在执行期间的值可以是任何形状和形式的任何东西。