"bearophile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But the dynamic languages allow you to save time in other ways.
I'd argue that most of those time-saving things are things that have absolutely nothing to do with dynamic typing and are perfectly possible with static typing. For example, things such as function-literals/closures/delegates (with clean syntax), reflection, having lots of large helpful libs, and being interpreted or JIT compiled are all associated with Python's (and Ruby's) productivity benefits, but none of those things even remotely necessitate dynamic typing.