[dragonwriter]

> It doesn't mean that at all. You might as well say "if shoes are good enough for going to the corner store, then multiple pairs of shoes are good enough for going to the moon".

A large system can be decomposed into a set of loosely-coupled smaller systems (indeed, that's often a preferred architecture for a variety of reasons independent of whether the language is static or dynamic).

A trip to the moon cannot be decomposed into a series of walks equivalent to a walk to the corner store.

Therefore, no, your analogy is not valid.

> That doesn't make any sense at all. How is having information written down instead of having to constantly remember and/or deduce it an impediment to reading?

Visual (and mental, really) noise, mostly -- there is a reason why clear, effective, easy-to-read writing is often not writing that avoids all potential ambiguities and is sure to define as much as possible to avoid people having to deduce things. Making everything explicit is generally generally in tension with readability, not an aid to it.