If we're applying the argument to Perl, then sure.. I get it. With Perl, it's more a question of syntax. By supporting so many ways to accomplish the same thing, it can be very unwieldy when you have many programmers all exercising all of those options.
It's not a question of dynamic in that case. It's a question of a (in my opinion) fundamental shortcoming in the language.
However, languages like Python or Ruby both seem pretty well suited for large scale development. We've seen large scale projects written in both, and it works just fine.
So no, I don't agree with the fundamental premise that dynamic languages are bad for 'big' projects. If by 'big' we mean memory/processor intensive... well lets have THAT debate instead.
If we're applying the argument to Perl, then sure.. I get it. With Perl, it's more a question of syntax. By supporting so many ways to accomplish the same thing, it can be very unwieldy when you have many programmers all exercising all of those options.
It's not a question of dynamic in that case. It's a question of a (in my opinion) fundamental shortcoming in the language.
However, languages like Python or Ruby both seem pretty well suited for large scale development. We've seen large scale projects written in both, and it works just fine.
So no, I don't agree with the fundamental premise that dynamic languages are bad for 'big' projects. If by 'big' we mean memory/processor intensive... well lets have THAT debate instead.