Reading this debate has been an exercise in sifting valuable commentary from a bunch of opinionated drivel, on both sides. In particular, the current article suffers from the author assuming that every single comment is addressed to his presentation, despite it getting a very brief mention near the beginning. The 'seven deadly sins' article had a better tone, but still spent most of its time on non sequiturs and anti-intellectual cheap shots.

I'm quite interested in type systems (and the lack thereof) but the level of debate around them is astonishingly poor.