While studying C# I found it really strange, that dynamically typed Python will rise an error in the following code:

i = 5
print i + " "

whereas statically typed C# will normally proceed the similar code:

int i = 5;
Console.Write(i + " ");

I would expect other way around (in python I would be able to do this without any casting, but C# would require me to cast int to string or string to int).

Just to highlight, I am not asking what language is better, I am curious what was the reason behind implementing the language this way.