While I liked the cartoon Steve Yegge used to illustrate static typing, I have a question about today's post (and about his last one on Agile, for that matter):

Does this amount to anything more than argument by assertion? It's long, and he makes some points I agree with, but in all the verbiage about how agile development is just a superstition, I don't see any actual evidence being brought forth. Does this differ much from what he accuses the agile crowd of? Oh, and the cartoon:

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