What is the runtime? And I don't mean "at run time" = as the program/script is running. I mean The <your-interpreted-language-here> runtime

From http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan I quote: "Using a JIT will also allow us to move Python from a stack-based machine to a register machine, which has been shown to imp...

What are some examples of a dynamically scoped language? And what are the reasons for choosing that design? Is it because it is easy to implement?

What is the advantage of having this/self/me pointer mandatory explicit? According to OOP theory a method is supposed to operate mainly (only?) on member variables and method's arguments. Followin...

This code has the well defined behavior in C# of not working: class Foo { static List<int> to = new List<int>( from ); // from is still null static IEnumerable<int> from = Some...

For my theory of computing languages class, we got a homework assignment to implement a piece of code in a language that only has while statements for flow control (no if statements). This is mainl...