Language wars

Thanks for the explanation. I agree with your point about dynamically typed languages; I would also like the compiler to do more work for me, and I enjoy hacking things in languages like Haskell (and occasionally C# or even C++) and getting that solid 'clunk' sound when all the code compiles successfully into an object file with no possibility of runtime type errors. And yet my preferred language for hacking something up in a hurry remains perl.