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Late binding can give you a great deal of flexibility as a Visual Basic programmer, but it has a serious downside: It eliminates static-type checking and disables IntelliSense support. Late binding ...

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Large codebases are more difficult to maintain when they are written in dynamic languages. At least that’s what Yevgeniy Brikman, lead developer bringing the Play Framework to LinkedIn says in a video ...

The dynamic keyword brings exciting new features to C# 4. Find out how it works and why it simplifies a lot of your coding tasks, including some handy COM interop possibilities. The dynamic keyword ...

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The growing popularity of dynamic languages, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby — which are popular for building Web applications — has caused companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Sun ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

The recent “failure” of the Chandler PIM project generated the question, “Can Dynamic Languages Scale?” on TheServerSide, and, as is all too typical these days, it turned into a “You suck”/”No you ...