> I was trying to find ways to make it possible to use the > same programming language for projects ranging from tiny > scripts to multi-million line spraw

> I was trying to find ways to make it possible to use the > same programming language for projects ranging from tiny > scripts to multi-million line sprawling codebases, > without compromising too much at any point in the > continuum. An important part of this was the idea of > gradual growth from an untyped prototype to a battle- > tested, statically typed product.