Dynamic language

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On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 07:09:39 UTC, so wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not related to D but this is a community which i can find at 
> least a few objective person. I want to invest some "quality" 
> time on a dynamic language but i am not sure which one. Would 
> you please suggest one?
>
> To give you an idea what i am after:
> Of all one-liners i have heard only one gets me.
> "The programmable programming language". Is it true? If so Lisp 
> will be my first choice.
>
> Thanks.

Not really a help to you, but I honestly have no idea why people 
*want* to use dynamic programming languages. There is very little 
benefit I see in having your core object structure be complete 
dynamic. I remember watching this Google tech talk awhile ago, 
about V8 and improving Javascript performance. At one point, the 
speaker talks about how cool Dynamic objects *can* be, but then 
goes on later to say that 90% of code isn't structured that way 
(and thus justifying V8's JITed hidden classes).

I think a language should be static first and dynamic second. C# 
does this nicely (anonymous and dynamic types, Link, etc) and I 
think D is at least partially there (in regards to dynamic 
objects) with std.variant + associative arrays.