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Scripting languages. Dynamic languages. Agile languages. Actually OO languages.

Whatever you want to call them, there is a lot of talk about them at the moment.

People get very religious about kind of thing, which is particularly strange. They are all tools, and if you use one of them, it doesn't mean that you can not pick up another, or that you must hate all other tools.

Noone programs/expresses themselves in one language anyway! SQL/bash/*ML, ...

So, some people are getting into a tissy arguing about Rails vs. "insert Java framework", or Ruby vs. Java, etc. Let's settle down, and try to work out how we can learn from eachother, and when it makes sense to use a given tool for the job at hand.

A bunch of leading scripting language experts were seperately interviewed via email in the article: The State of the Scripting Universe.

It is very interesting to see how much consensus there is on dynamic languages use.

This shows, that often, the leaders in the community mimic their silent users. They just want to get stuff done.