I've worked on a couple of these systems over the years and I think it's a combination of the philosophy of those languages: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2

I've worked on a couple of these systems over the years and I think it's a combination of the philosophy of those languages: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/execution-in-kingd... And partly a correlation between the type of company that chooses a "proper", statically typed, "enterprise ready" language and the type of company that hires "safe pair of hands" programmers who value predictability over getting stuff done.