It just depends on how smart the tools are, actually.
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Ben has a few words to say about Compiled vs Dynamic Laguages and the Code Feedback Loop.

I mostly agree with what he says, I usually open a booish interpreter open so I can try stuff out.

However, there are a few things that I don't agree with:

The compiler is becoming less and less popular these days because it cannot protect your program from logic flaws, It’s becoming much like the spell-check feature of word processors.  They can tell you that you mispelled the word definate definite, but a sentence like this one will pass spell-check just fine:  We will meat at the movie theater.

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The above image is from Word 2007 ;-)

There are things that are harder to do with dynamic languages, intellisense is one of them, and it is a fairly major one when you deal with a framework that has 1,279 public types with 18,483 public methods in the mscorlib.dll alone. And it is not just method names that I am talking about here, it is the various overloads that makes intellisense a must for me.

That said, take into account that I regulary work in either booish (command line interpreter) or notepad to code.

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