Object-Oriented Software Construction, Bertrand Meyer Dr. Bertrand Meyer founded and remains chief technical officer of ISE, a software company now in its sixteenth year. He participated in creating ...

A language that requires less rigid coding on the part of the programmer. It typically features "dynamic typing," which gives the programmer more freedom to pass parameters at runtime without having ...

Large codebases are more difficult to maintain when they are written in dynamic languages. At least that’s what Yevgeniy Brikman, lead developer bringing the Play Framework to LinkedIn says in a video ...

Facebook engineers Bryan O'Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other. O'Sullivan and company publicly revealed their ...

The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby -- which are popular for building Web applications -- has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun ...

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Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...

Gradual typing has emerged as a compelling approach to reconcile the strengths of static and dynamic type systems. By permitting programmers to incrementally annotate code, it enables early detection ...