I'm studying C, and the idea of guard digits and rounding errors came up. Do practitioners of scripting languages (I'm thinking of Python and Perl here) need to worry about this stuff? What if they...

An article called "Perl cannot be parsed, a formal proof" is doing the rounds. So, does Perl decide the meaning of its parsed code at "run-time" or "compile-time"? In some discussions I've read, I...

I have an AS3 Object: {p1:"..", p2:".."} I want con create another object that contains the first one in a property whose name is defined by a variable: var propertyName:String = "myName"; var myO...

I have been doing active development in C# for several years now. I primarily build enterprise application and in house frameworks on the .NET stack. I've never had the need to use any other...

I often find developers use the terms functional language and dynamic language together, and wonder why are they always being put together. What are the differences between them? Can a language be...

I'm exploring several possibilities for developing a new system (web application). I'm an "old fashioned" kinda guy, object oriented in nature (converted from procedural many years ago). I played ...

I don't have access to the C# 4.0 preview yet. But I am curious, what does the C# 4.0 runtime do when invoking an overloaded method in the following case. Does it resolve to the generic overload .....

Listening to a podcast, I heard that C# is not dynamic language while Ruby is. What is a "dynamic language"? Does the existence of dynamic languages imply that there are static languages? Why is ...

To my surprise as I am developing more interest towards dynamic languages like Ruby and Python. The claim is that they are 100% object oriented but as I read on several basic concepts like interfac...

I'm familiar with CouchDB and the idea of mapping its results to Scala objects, as well as find some natural way to iteract with it, came immediatly. But I see that Dynamic languages such as Ruby ...

My primary language right now is D, and I'm in the process of learning Python because it's required for a course I'm taking. While I understand why dynamic languages would be a breath of fres...

When C# 4.0 comes out and we have the dynamic keyword as described in this excellent presentation by Anders Hejlsberg, (C# is evolving faster than I can keep up.. I didn't have much time to acquain...

After I discontinued programming in C++ while entering into web authoring I was spoilt by PHP's high level constructs like hash tables or its dynamic, weak typing. I remembered the angst of C...

What factors indicate that a project's solution should not be coded in a dynamic language?

It seems that everybody is jumping on the dynamic, non-compiled bandwagon lately. I've mostly only worked in compiled, static typed languages (C, Java, .Net). The experience I have with dy...