Users of the Smalltalk browser will be surprised to learn that Smalltalk has static typing.

Then again, users of Eclipse may be surprised to learn that many of its features came from VisualAge for Smalltalk.

On the gripping hand, anyone well-versed in programming language design won't be surprised to learn of the research (from Strongtalk, I believe) which suggests that at least 90% of a program written in a dynamic language is almost trivially statically decidable.

The moral of the story is: distrust people who make sweeping pronouncements without having done their homework.