Thoughts on Programming Language Ideology

Interpreted Languages	Compiled Languages
`Lisp, Prolog, Tcl`	`Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, C, C++`
"Scripting" Languages
`sh, ksh, Awk, Perl`
Dynamically Typed OO Languages	Statically Typed OO Languages
`Smalltalk, Python(?), Ruby`	`C++, Java`

Languages on the Left value programmer productivity.
- Let the programmer get to work immediately without "ceremony".
- Enable powerful techniques like "eval" statements and metaprogramming.
- Trust the programmer.

Languages on the right value computational efficiency and maintainability.
- Algorithmic rather than declarative.
- Favor statically declared types, ceremony, and verbosity.
- Distrust the programmer.