The post on Lambda the Ultimate points to a PDF on the revival of dynamic languages, and asks for the following:

The programming languages of today are stuck in a deep rut that has developed over the past 50 years... We argue the need for a new class of dynamic languages... features such as dynamic first-class namespaces, explicit meta-models, optional, pluggable type systems, and incremental compilation of running software systems.

The industry needs to step into the wayback machine with Professor Peabody, and rediscover Lisp and Smalltalk - both of which have been doing all that and more, for - oh, I don't know - over two decades. Instead, huge wads of cash have been (and are being) spent on the C based languages, the alligator filled swamp that is "modern" development.