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 ...

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 ...

Every answer after the first one is useless because the question itself is fundamentally incorrect, as noted in the first answer. I have worked on a few government projects and the feel I got was much ...

The optimisation of dynamic language runtimes has emerged as a critical research area in computer science, addressing the inherent challenges posed by languages whose types are resolved at runtime.

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 ...

Hey FF22, compare the amount of code required in your favorite dynamic language to F# or C# you'd be surprised how much code you can cut down if you use Linq, generics and anonymous functions. Also, ...

Microsoft is busy factoring in the growing use of dynamic languages in its planned upgrade to the Visual Studio software development platform. The upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release boosts ...

However, like any other tool, dynamic languages are not necessarily interchangeable. Each has its place in a programmer’s tool kit. We asked a group of luminaries in the scripting world for their ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...