Anders Hjelsberg

Interesting interview with the always interesting Anders here:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/an-interview-with-anders-hejls-1.html

If I understand it correctly he says that dynamic languages are a fashion because Java is too complicated but that they, like their ancestor Smalltalk, are great for small to medium projects.
That would be fine, but how many people actually do Really Enormous Projects from scratch anymore? In something like Grails, which sits on top of Hibernate and Spring, the scripting language is leveraging the non-dynamic Java platform under it, turning a Large project into a small one Anders is probably right (I am a compiled language fan myself) but for many, perhaps most non Java/.Net Framework size projects, it doesnt really matter. And the predicted scripting language disaster have yet to happen. As I said previously, despite the 'back to the future' feeling, I am won over by Python and Ruby and the other 'new' languages