Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Closed 6 years ago. Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I keep hearing this term tossed around in several different contexts. … Read more
What are the advantages and limitations of dynamic type languages compared to static type languages? See also: whats with the love of dynamic languages (a far more argumentative thread…) 9 Answers 9
Every so often when programmers are complaining about null errors/exceptions someone asks what we do without null. I have some basic idea of the coolness of option types, but I don’t have the knowledge or languages skill to best express it. What is a great explanation of the following written in a way approachable to … Read more
Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. It wasn’t that long ago that I was a beginning coder, trying to find good books/tutorials on languages I wanted to learn. Even still, there are times I need … Read more
Why don’t more mainstream statically typed languages support function/method overloading by return type? I can’t think of any that do. It seems no less useful or reasonable than supporting overload by parameter type. How come it’s so much less popular? 14 Answers 14
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I see a lot of talk on here about functional languages and stuff. Why would … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Closed 11 years ago. Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. There’s been a cluster of Perl-hate on Stack Overflow lately, so I thought I’d … Read more
I came across the term duck typing while reading random topics on software online and did not completely understand it. What is “duck typing”? 18 s 18 It is a term used in dynamic languages that do not have strong typing. The idea is that you don’t need a type in order to invoke an … Read more
This is PascalCase: SomeSymbol This is camelCase: someSymbol This is snake_case: some_symbol So my questions is whether there is a widely accepted name for this: some-symbol? It’s commonly used in url’s. 15 s 15 There isn’t really a standard name for this case convention, and there is disagreement over what it should be called. That … Read more
I hear a lot that new programming languages are dynamically typed but what does it actually mean when we say a language is dynamically typed vs. statically typed? 17 s 17 Statically typed languages A language is statically typed if the type of a variable is known at compile time. For some languages this means … Read more
