There is an inferred point in this post, touched on in the last paragraph: that this tendency to lump a lot of operations into one line is less about bad langua

There is an inferred point in this post, touched on in the last paragraph: that this tendency to lump a lot of operations into one line is less about bad language design and more about lazy programmers. I never stated that statically typed languages ARE bad, but that they ENCOURAGE (lazy) programmers to write bad code. A lazy programmer might see that as bad code but not fix it because he doesn't want to go through the work mentioned in the post. A lazy programmer may not know the IDE functions that would do the work for him.