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 ...

In a static type system, you have compiler-checked annotations of return types and such, but in a dynamic language the same knowledge still exists—it's just informal and stored in brains and ...

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 ...

A dynamically typed language need not be dynamically scoped and a statically typed language need not be lexically scoped, but there is often a correlation between the two.) ...

Visual Basic behaves like a statically-typed language once you activate Option Strict, much as C# or Java do. A unique feature of VB when compared to other static or dynamic languages is that VB lets ...

C# and Java are often considered examples of statically typed languages, while Python, Ruby and JavaScript are examples of dynamically typed languages. Generally speaking, dynamic languages don't ...

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 ...

Proponents of statically typed languages can present their own list of arguments why their language is better. Python developers should focus on these differences, rather than execution speed, for a ...