[luord]

You're awfully unfamiliar with the history of computer science if you truly believe that dynamic typing is some sort of recent invention or that static typing is some panacea that solves all of your problems.

Both systems of type checking have existed as long as... Programming languages have existed, essentially and, sadly, so have the endless comparisons and flamewars.

[em-bee]

i learned to love smalltalk and lisp after i realized that despite their age they are just as good as most younger programming languages.

it felt like a revelation, and almost disappointment that there is hardly any innovation in newer languages.