> I don't see how we can ascribe the difference in productivity to dynamic versus static type systems My personal opinion/observation/"gut feeling" is that dyn

> I don't see how we can ascribe the difference in productivity to dynamic versus static type systems My personal opinion/observation/"gut feeling" is that dynamic typing has helped, but I haven't done any kind of concrete study to figure out its impact vs, say, removing the compile/link phase. I observe some of the code being written and definitely see programmers taking advantage of the dynamic nature of the language.