The argument of "readable" code is like saying Steak taste better than Chinese food: it depends on your audience. I used to buy the whole dynamic language argu

The argument of "readable" code is like saying Steak taste better than Chinese food: it depends on your audience. I used to buy the whole dynamic language argument (heck I even lead local Python user group) but not any more these days. To me, Ruby is less readable than Python. To me, when reading a large code base, Java is more readable than Python. To me LISP is weird (even though I kind of like it). Now you said "it makes sense to optimize for readability" the problem with this statement is that less code != readable code (and I don't mean to jam everything in one line a'la Perl). I find that I need to read, re-read, think, and re-think a few times just to understand what the Ruby crowds refer to short, concise, and elegant code. Whereas in Java, albeit more terse, I can just read within seconds to know the intention of the code. So it all depends. Hence me not buying the dynamic vs static debate.