An example of a strictly-typed language is ActionScript (the language Flash apps are written in), and the same variable declaration we just wrote would look like this in ActionScript 3: var ...

For example, a variable can be used in the program that controls an automatic car park barrier. It can keep track of the number of cars going in and out and decide whether to let more cars in.

In fairness, this example combines what some might consider system variables with the environment variables specifically provided by the continuous integration framework. But since all these system ...

A complex object sort, for example, will run 3.9x faster than an implementation of the same algorithm in Python. That’s also faster than Objective-C, which is 2.8x faster than the Python version.