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Lots of people are commenting on Steve Yegge’s talk “Dynamic Languages Strike Back“, so I’ll add my 2 cents. I’m a hardcore Scheme & Lisp programmer, but even I will reluctantly admit that static typing is important and useful. The primary reason I still use Scheme is because I won’t ever give up macros. On to the talk: Yegge spends too much time arguing that the performance of dynamic languages can match static languages, especially since many (Java & C#) are using reflection as a poor man’s dynamism anyway.