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by lmm 3890 days ago
I don't think the distinction is the one you're making it. The original intentions of languages are accidents of history (Java was originally for set-top boxes), and the likes of Python and Ruby are perfectly legitimate languages. The best options on the JVM happen to be typed, but there are good untyped languages and bad typed languages, and parochial typed languages and general-purpose untyped languages too.