Hang on, did you read the quote above from the guy that named it?! He says explicitly that he chose it not because it was accurate but because non-technical emp

Hang on, did you read the quote above from the guy that named it?! He says explicitly that he chose it not because it was accurate but because non-technical employers/funders would be unlikely to object since it sounds positive. Does that not meet your definition of "bad choice" for a technical term? "dynamic programming language" means a "dynamically typed" language; and "dynamically typed" means the types are acquired at run time, and vary at run time according to run time events. So "dynamic" is a good choice there in that it is consistent with the use of the word outside programming.