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 ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...

At Mix '07, Microsoft promised it would add dynamic-language support to Silverlight. As of this year's Mix '08 conference, it has done so. The way Microsoft is delivering support for Ruby, Python and ...

A programming language that requires less rigid coding. It may feature "dynamic typing," which gives the programmer more freedom to pass parameters at runtime without having to define them beforehand.

This past week, I had a chance to speak with Frank Wierzbicki, and Ted Leung, both with Sun, about dynamic languages and their integration with Java. If you look at Java as a platform, with the ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The stricter a language is, the more it relies on the coder thinking analytically. Yes, it's less work because you have less things to clean up, the computer can do that for you. But it's not well ...

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and Sun Microsystems' director of Web technologies, hosted a lively post-Script Bowl panel discussion on the future of dynamic scripting languages at this year's JavaOne ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Dynamic programming languages have been around for decades. With LISP (LISt Processing) and Smalltalk as progenitors, today’s popular examples include Perl, Python, and Ruby. Often labeled “open ...