Steve Yegge on dynamic languages
Steve Yegge has written a great transcript of a talk he gave at Stanford on dynamic languages. It focuses mainly on the perceived slowness and lack of tools available for dynamic languages, discussing whether this is actually true and what steps are currently being taken to improve dynamic languages. I have to admit that certain parts of it are a little over my head; I must buy the dragon book!
It links to a lot of papers that I’m going to have to put some time aside to look at.
If you’re at all interested in programming languages then I recommend giving it a read.