Now that Java has a fully open sourced implementation in RedHat's IcedTea, Neil McAllister questions whether an open Java even matters: "Even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies - adding APIs and language features as it goes - newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better."
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2006-02-05
Honestly, I see the benefit of dynamic languages being less lines of code. That being said, I can see where you are coming from, and mostly agree with you.
As a C# dev, with each release of the language we seem to get a new feature from dynamic or functional languages (lambdas, implicit typing, extension methods). Maybe dynamic languages will not take over in the form they are now, but more traditional strongly typed languages will get more dynamic.