Will this cartoon change the face of software?

Stevey's rather well-known post about his views on Agile development may well be remember more for the Far Side cartoon and Java's approach to manifest typing than anything he says about Agile (he must have met some scary Agile people). My own (limited) experience with Agile has been more positive.

But (in this context) that cartoon is so memorable, so visceral, that it is bound to be quoted in any future debate about dynamic versus manifest typing. So far the debate has seemed fairly evenly balanced. Although I'm a fan of the dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby and Lisp, they haven't made convincing inroads against the dependable Algol-like mainstream just yet.

But now even manifest advocate must argue with that cartoon swirling around in the background.

List<ProManifestArguments> proManifestArguments = new ArrayList<ProManifestArguments>()

It's a mouthful.