Ted Neward has posted red herring bait: "Can Dynamic Languages Scale":

The recent "failure" of the Chandler PIM project generated the question, "Can Dynamic Languages Scale?" on TheServerSide, and, as is all too typical these days, it turned into a "You suck"/"No you suck" flamefest between a couple of posters to the site.

He then goes into a long series of technical arguments about why dynamic languages can scale, but he manages to miss the central problem - Chandler failed for a very simple reason, and it's the same reason most projects fail: poor management that did not set direction well. When you leave developers to run off in their own directions, you often get interesting technology - but you rarely get a sellable product.

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