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 ...

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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 ...

Statically typed languages are those in which you would need to specify the type of an object at the time when you define it. Examples of statically typed languages include C#, VB, and C++. On the ...

Late last year Microsoft took IronRuby, IronPython and the Dynamic Language Runtime projects open source. Here's a look at the open source dynamic language resources for Visual Studio. With ...

I shouldn’t be up this late, but I’ve been doing lots of thinking and exploring tonight. In studying various VMs over the past few years, I’ve come up with a list of do’s and don’t that make things ...

There is a perpetual debate in programming circles about the pros and cons of static vs. dynamic typing. I’ve always favored dynamically typed languages, such as Lisp, Perl and Python, because my own ...

Lately I've been teaching programming courses in both Python and Ruby, often to seasoned developers used to C++ and Java. Inevitably, the fact that Python and Ruby are dynamically typed languages, ...