Acknowledging the Elephant in Development
There is a great article over on SnapLogic, SnapLogic Blog » Squishy design with Python: Designing in code
The gist of the article is that when developing APIs are never as complete as we want them when we are developing a new system and if you are using a static language you’ve got lots of ramifications to consider and code to rework when you have to expand an API. However, dynamic languages have a real advantage here and they go on to give a very real example and how they dealt with it.