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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

ActiveState Software Inc. on Tuesday is releasing Version 5.0 of its Komodo integrated development environment (IDE) for dynamic languages, offering more speed, more support for distributed ...

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 ...