The real value of dynamic languages can only be realized in dynamic, image-based, live programming environments like the kind you have with Lisp and Smalltalk.

The real value of dynamic languages can only be realized in dynamic, image-based, live programming environments like the kind you have with Lisp and Smalltalk. Whether "scripting" languages, as in languages used to write small, one-off programs, or programs to automate systems administration tasks or to glue other programs together, benefit from that type of power is debatable, but Ruby, Python, and Perl have never been particularly good representatives of the dynamic language paradigm as a whole, either conceptually or implementation-wise.