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Well then, if no true programmer likes dynamically typed languages, I'd better make some calls...

Hey, RMS, Abelson, Sussman, Steele, Guido, Larry, Matz, Richard Gabriel, ESR, DHH, Flatt, and Felleisen, it turns out you're not true programmers! Okay, cool.

Needless to say, I claim No True Scottsman.

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I see it like; smart,disciplined programmers are capable of writing complex programs in dynamically typed languages without making as many errors.

Lisp, though, does have types.

All languages have types. Lisp, however, and particularly the versions that those people worked with, are dynamically typed, like Javascript. Unlike JS, they aren't weakly typed, but that's not the point. To say nothing of Ruby and Python, for which there are also programmers on that list.

Common Lisp compilers may implement static typing. The default type is T, though — but with declarations, a compiler can enforce anything the programmer declares or it infers.

Most of those people either worked with MACLisp, or dynamically typed Scheme.

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