For small programs, dynamic, runtime tag checked languages as pioneered by LISP are great environments! (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Smalltalk, PHP, ...) For lar

For small programs, dynamic, runtime tag checked languages as pioneered by LISP are great environments! (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Smalltalk, PHP, ...) For large programs, making the computer instantly tell you where you remembered wrong is more important (like Haskell, as well as Pascal, C++, Java, C#, etc.) By comparison, small syntactic differences fade into the background noise. This is not news.