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 ...

Why Python is not the programming language of the future ... One of them is that it’s dynamically typed — remember that you don’t need to specify data types like in other languages.

Dynamic languages, most notably Python, are establishing themselves in the enterprise like never before. CIOs should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of Python carefully--and consider that their ...

On the contrary, in dynamically typed languages, the type of an object is determined at runtime — only at the time when a value is assigned to the type. Python, Ruby, and JavaScript are examples ...

“Python is very popular because of its set of robust libraries that make it such a dynamic and a fast programming language,” said Kristen Sosulski, clinical associate professor of information ...

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 ...

I could design you a language that was dynamically typed but also had namespaces, modules, inheritance, libraries, private members, and so on—in fact, C# 4 is such a language—and such a ...

In a dynamically typed language, it's not obvious to me why a function that returns multiple types is a bad idea. My background in static languages makes me avoid writing such functions, ...