I see these terms bandied around all over the place in programming and I have a vague notion of what they mean. A search shows me that such things have been asked all over stack overflow in fact. As far as I’m aware Static/Dynamic typing in languages is subtly different to Strong/Weak typing but what … Read more
Also, does one imply the other? 8 s 8
When should I use an interface and when should I use a base class? Should it always be an interface if I don’t want to actually define a base implementation of the methods? If I have a Dog and Cat class. Why would I want to implement IPet instead of PetBase? I can understand having … 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
