"Why do dynamic languages make it difficult to maintain large codebases?"

[jducoeur]

Some of you have probably read it already (and to some of you it's just preaching to the choir), but I commend this article from Ars Technica, describing quite calmly the reasons why typical "dynamic" languages are poorly-suited to large-scale programming. It's not quite the way I would have put it (I would hammer even harder on the point that dynamic programs are relatively easy to write, but hard to maintain), but I this it hits most of the important points. And the author has deep enough experience with a wide enough range of languages to seriously know what he's talking about...