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Explaining the difference between strictness of languages and paradigms to a colleague of mine, I ended up asserting that: Tolerant languages, such as dynamic and interpreted languages, are used best ...

By "prototyping language", I mean one which was chosen by virtue of it's relative ease of quickly accomplishing the sort of design changes common to prototyping in a particular context. (such as data ...

I began coding in in Python primarily where there is no type safety, then moved to C# and Java where there is. I found that I could work a bit more quickly and with less headaches in Python, but then ...

In the last few months, the mantra "favor composition over inheritance" seems to have sprung up out of nowhere and become almost some sort of meme within the programming community. And every time I ...

I've recently poured a couple of hours into JavaScript because I wanted to benefit from the massive userbase. Doing that I have noticed a pattern that most people attribute to dynamic languages. You ...

While curiosing on the main page of a scripting programming language's site, I encountered this passage: When a system gets too big to keep in your head, you can add static types. This made me ...

With the advent of "the web is the platform", JavaScript is fast becoming the most widely used programming language in the world. However, many tasks that are easy to accomplish in other modern ...

A client asked us to estimate effort when selecting PHP as the implementation language for his next web-based application. We spent about a week exploring PHP, prototyping, testing etc., We are quite ...

I have been dealing with programming for several years now (I am still a student but with a lot of internships). Mostly working with C++, Python and MATLAB, I noticed that whenever I download an SDK ...

I recently moved from Java to JavaScript on Node.js. I was very excited, opened up my IntelliJ IDE for an existing Node.js project only to find I cannot know what the parameters I see functions ...