With a bit of creativity, you can use static typing systems to at least slant the table in your favor with SQL, HTML, and in general, structured text output. It's hard to completely ban string concatenation because you will eventually need it, but you can make it so doing the right thing is easier than the wrong thing.
However, existing libraries for statically-typed languages often don't do the work or apply the creativity and end up roughly as unsafe as the dynamically typed languages.
It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
