On: If you have to learn just one programming language...

[Turing_Machine]

"I can’t think of any advantage of dynamic typing except that it allows the programmer to be lazy and not specify the type."

I think he needs to think some more. :-)

[steveklabnik → Turing_Machine]

Ugh. I was skimming the article, and when I read that, I was glad I was only skimming.

There was certainly a time when I pretty much thought the same thing, though. It's unfortunate.

[billmcneale → steveklabnik]

Actually, I think this characterization is pretty accurate.

Most developers that like dynamic languages do so because they can write less code, which is exactly what the blog author is saying.