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* Dynamic programming languages are generally somewhat easier for newcomers to programming, in large part because they need not understand the system of annotations referred to above in order to write programs
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This article is a complete mess, and badly in need of a rewrite. The language is informal and non-standard, and there are no sources to any of the potentially controversial (or at least non-obvious) assertions made. Plus, at least half of the content (the bit about functions and addresses) is simply incorrect. The way "dynamic" languages are described as using indirection rather than running code at a predefined memory address really is completely unimportant as a distinction -- it is possible to modify the contents of a memory address (or use it to point elsewhere) while code is running to change the behavior, and this can be done even in C. In fact, it is done in C quite often in some types of programming, such as emulators, for example.
The single most important distinguishing feature between most "dynamic" languages and "non-dynamic" languages has to do with type systems (and not interactivity, or some other fuzzily defined concept which doesn't hold under careful examination), yet type systems are practically ignored in the article. [[User:70.36.30.117|70.36.30.117]] 06:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
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