Just want to share. Langauge Freedom vs. Safety post

Curt Hibbs' blog pointed me toward Kevin Barnes' post entitled, Freedom languages. The author seems to favor the "free" languages a little bit more than the "safety" languages, but it's a nice (as Curt described it) "reframing of the debate" between languages like Ruby (free) and Java (safe).

Both sets of languages are making tradeoffs about what they view as the most important features of a language.The freedom languages are choosing powerful feature sets and the safety languages favor clearer contracts and commonly readable syntax.These are choices about how best to achieve the goals of programming.